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Iraq - Ekeus visit
Reports that Iraq has secret supplies of VX nerve gas are being
investigated by a UN disarmament mission.
UN envoy Rolf Ekeus, who heads the UN disarmement mission, is in
Baghdad investigating Iraq's chemical and biological warfare...
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UK Analyst on NKorea missile launch
North Korea's claim that it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile is a 'game changer', a former British military officer told The Associated Press on Tuesday.Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former commanding officer of...
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Williamson: Soldiers to be vaccinated against anthrax poisoning
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson announced on Thursday that British soldiers are to be vaccinated against anthrax poisoning in the wake of the Salisbury nerve agent attack.
Speaking from Filton, Williamson also...
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The French test an atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
The French test an atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert.
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WRAP Gen Amin reaction to warheads discovery announcement
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant General Hossam Mohammed Amin, Chief Iraqi liaison officer
"Very strange statement from Mister Hiro Ueki, the spokesman of UNMOVIC in Baghdad. We were astonished more than usual when we heard the...
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is ordering top-to-bottom changes in how the U.S. nuclear arsenal is managed, vowing to invest billions of dollars more to fix what ails a force beset by leadership lapses, security flaws and sagging morale. (Nov. 14)
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the military's failure to maintain its focus on U.S. nuclear forces led them to be mismanaged.
He vowed to invest in and bolster the force, saying there is...
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Nerve agent Novichok - how it breaks down the body
LEADIN:
Chemical experts say the nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter behaves differently to those previously used and is in a class of substances deadlier than similar chemicals like sarin or...
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Former Soviet scientist says Russia has "monopoly" on Novichok agent
A scientist who helped developed Novichok on Friday said no country but Russia could have used that particular nerve agent to poison an ex-spy.
Russia denies being the source of the agent that left Sergei Skripal and his...
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People watching for seismic activity at HK observatory; Hang Seng Index
1. Pan across exterior of Hong Kong Observatory
2. Sign on exterior of Hong Kong Observatory
3. Man working at computer monitors
4. Close up of computer screen showing seismic data
5. Mid shot of computer screens showing seismic data
6....
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Iraqi Kurds comment after meeting President Bush
1. Wide shot of Idris Hawarry speaking to reporters in front of White House
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Idris Hawarry, Halabja survivor:
"The president asked, you know, what was happened, what you saw, what's your story and we told him what...
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EDIT of President George W Bush's State of the Union address
1. Wide of Congress
2. President George W. Bush being introduced and entering Congress
3. Various of Bush greeting Congressmen and Senators
4. Various of Bush approaching podium and shaking hands with Speaker and Vice-President Dick...
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IAEA, NATO officials, Nagasaki survivor, at Vatican nuclear meeting
The Vatican on Friday hosted Nobel laureates, UN and NATO officials and a handful of nuclear powers at a conference aimed at galvanizing support for a global shift from the Cold War era policy of nuclear deterrence to one of total...
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Nerve agent Novichok - how it breaks down the body
LEADIN:
Chemical experts say the nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy and his daughter behaves differently to those previously used and is in a class of substances deadlier than similar chemicals like sarin or...
Hearst Metrotone News
U.S. Soldiers take cover in a trench as a test atomic bomb explodes in Survival City in Nevada in 1947.
U.S. Soldiers take cover in a trench as a test atomic bomb explodes in Survival City in Nevada in 1947.
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A mushroom cloud rises from an atomic bomb test site in Nevada.
A mushroom cloud rises from an atomic bomb test site in Nevada.
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Pentagon, Powell bites on nuclear targets report
APTN Material
Washington DC - 10 March 2002
1. Mid shot of US Secretary of State Colin Powell speaking to reporters
2. Cutaway photographers.
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Powell, US Secretary of State:
"In the last several years we've...
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Saddam's adviser comments on British dossier
1. Iraqi officials enter room, walk to desk
2. Wideshot of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Amir al-Sa'adi, advisor to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein:
"These conclusions that Iraq is engaged in the production of weapons of mass...
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Kaag says deadline to dismantle Syria chemical weapons achievable
The Dutch diplomat leading an international mission to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons programme on Tuesday said that the end-of-June deadline for total destruction of the stockpile was still achievable.
Sigrid Kaag said Syria had...
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USA - King Hussein Pro Nuclear Non-Proliferation
King Hussein of Jordan said on Wednesday (5/4) he is committed to
eliminating weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East.
Visiting the United Nations the king said he has already discussed weapons issues with U.N. Secretary-General,...
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+4:3 Lawyers ask French court for 1988 Iraq chemical weapons attack investigation
Paris - 10 June 2013
1. Wide of American and French lawyers and colleagues walking up staircase of Paris courthouse
2. Close-up of legal complaint being filed
3. Lawyers Gavriel Mairone and David Pere reading complaint
4. SOUNDBITE...
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USA: WASHINGTON: REACTION TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS TREATY
English/Nat
Former U-S policy makers say the controversial chemical weapons treaty would transfer sensitive chemical technology into the hands of so-called rogue states such as Iran and Iraq.
The onetime top defence officials were on...
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US official says NKorea cooperating on disabling nuclear facilities
1. Mid of South Korean airplane on tarmac
2. Sung Kim, the US State Department's top expert on Korea walking in terminal as journalists approach him
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Sung Kim, US State Department's top expert on Korea:
(Q: How...
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Excerpts of Lord Butler's report on Iraq intelligence
1. Members of report committee walking into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lord Butler, Report Author:
"Our own conclusions are the Government wanted the dossier as a document on which it could draw in its advocacy, not...
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ALBANIA: RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS & CHEMICAL WEAPONS HAVE BEEN LOOTED
Albanian/Nat
The Albanian army has reported that radioactive materials and chemical weapons were raided from an armoury near Tirana during the recent spate of looting.
It has called on people to return the highly dangerous materials. ...