7 (Crazy) Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs

Saw this article on Wired.com and thought I would share it.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/yourfriendatom.html

Labels: Peaceful nuclear explosions, Plowshares

North Korea quits nuclear talks

North Korea said on Tuesday it would quit international nuclear disarmament talks and restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium after the United Nations chastised it for launching a long-range rocket.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously condemned North Korea's launch on April 5 as contravening a U.N. ban, and demanded enforcement of existing sanctions against Pyongyang.

Prickly North Korea said in a Foreign Ministry statement that the U.N. action and separate six-country nuclear talks were an infringement of its sovereignty and it "will never participate in the (nuclear) talks any longer nor ... be bound to any agreement of the six-party talks." [via Yahoo! News]

Labels: North Korea, Six-Party talks