The concurrent rise of fascist governments in Europe led to a fear of a German nuclear weapon project, especially among scientists who were refugees from Nazi Germany and other fascist countries.
The script originally had Bohr, rescued from the Germans in Copenhagen, bring a shocked Oppenheimer news that the German nuclear weapon project was supplying expertise to its Japanese counterpart.
U.S. Seeks Allies to Confront Iran on Nuclear Plans The Bush administration has opened an unusual diplomatic struggle with Russia, China and India to bring Iran's suspected nuclear weapons project before the United Nations Security Council for possible sanctions.
President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China vowed to work together to persuade North Korea to abandon its newest nuclear weapons project.
Abdel Rahman al-Rashid writes:We thought it was Iran that was scared of a America-backed war to stop its nuclear weapons project, but to our surprise we discover that it's America that is afraid of war with Iran!
Had Pakistan's leaders sunk money into the infrastructure and housing instead of an expensive nuclear weapons project perhaps the loss of life and crops would have been less.
A new study tracing the development of Britain's nuclear weapons project rightly points to what the authors call "the beliefs, culture, and identity, issues which have led Britain to develop and retain a nuclear capability for nearly seventy years".
It has long been rumoured, and often reported, that in return for bankrolling the Pakistani nuclear weapons project, Saudi Arabia has a claim on some of those weapons in time of need.
In the early phase of the agreement, North Korea promised to shut down its five-megawatt nuclear reactor at Yongbyon -- a source of fuel for its nuclear weapons project -- and stop building two larger reactors that could potentially produce fuel for hundreds of weapons.
President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China publicly vowed today to work together to persuade North Korea to abandon its newest nuclear weapons project, though they carefully wended their way around the divisive question of whether China would take part in Washington's emerging strategy of economically isolating the North unless it complied.
In a perfect marriage of interests, Pakistan provided the North with many of the designs for gas centrifuges and much of the machinery it needs to make highly enriched uranium for the country's latest nuclear weapons project, one intended to put at risk South Korea, Japan and 100,000 American troops in Northeast Asia.
