Libya’s Iraq War Timeline

Key events in the lead up to and the aftermath of the Iraq war December 1988: Libyan terrorists bomb PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. April 1999: U.N. suspends…

U.N. Resolution Could Close Nuclear Loopholes

The United States, Britain, France, China and Russia have all asked the U.N. Security Council to endorse one of the most ambitious attempts in decades to stop the spread of…

Nukes ‘R’ Us

The New York Times March 4, 2004, p. A31 WASHINGTON – America’s relations with Pakistan and several other Asian countries have been rocked by the discovery of the vast smuggling…

Libya’s Nuclear Update – 2004

On December 19th, the Libyan government reversed course and announced a plan to dismantle all of its programs for making mass destruction weapons and to allow immediate international inspections of…

North Korea Nuclear Update – 2004

As the year 2004 began, North Korea offered once again to freeze its nuclear program as part of a deal that might resolve its standoff with the United States. And…

Iran’s Nuclear Card

It is now clear that the Islamic Republic of Iran has been operating a string of secret nuclear sites in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). In November, the…

Nuclear Breakout in the Middle East?

bitterlemons-international.org December 11, 2003 Since the 1960s, when Israel produced its first A-bomb’s worth of plutonium, it has enjoyed a surprisingly long-lived monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East….

What’s ‘Cheating’ in Farsi?

The Wall Street Journal November 13, 2003, p. A18 Iran has just revealed that for more than a decade it has been running secret programs to produce plutonium and enriched…