There is concern in the nuclear community that there are not timely and multiple readings of radioactivity at the plant itself.
One upshot of this gambit is renewed energy behind another hardy perennial on the anti-nuclear community's agenda: the idea of "de-alerting" of U.S. -- and, ostensibly, Russian -- nuclear forces.
An earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan early in the year rocked the nuclear community after the Fukushima Daiichi plant, operated by Tepco, suffered substantial damage to various reactors and some partial meltdowns, with radiation leakage.
Obama reaffirmed the U.S. alliance with South Korea and said North Korea, which is under U.N. sanctions for its efforts to start a nuclear program, could join the community of nations by dropping all nuclear ambitions.
While all these states publicly oppose Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons, they effectively block the international community from taking effective action against Iran's nuclear program.
Iran is under increasing pressure from the international community over its nuclear programme.
To date, however, they have been unable to convince the international community that their nuclear activities are solely for peaceful purposes.
As we watch the events in Japan, it is understandable that people are worried about the potential of nuclear radiation fallout in our community.
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"Iran's actions demonstrate why Iran has failed to convince the international community that is nuclear program is peaceful, " White House National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
Treasury Under Secretary David Cohen said that the US would continue to tighten restrictions "so long as Iran continues to fail to address the concerns of the international community about its nuclear programme".
Military officials from the U.S. and South Korea signed the "combined counterprovocation plan" a few weeks after North Korea's latest nuclear test alarmed the international community and prompted the United Nations to impose additional sanctions.
But if you defy the United States and the world community and pursue nuclear weapons like North Korea and Iran and Syria, you are immune from even being asked to resign by the United States and the United Nations.
There should be no dialogue with a theocratic dictatorship that stays in power through sheer brute force, defies the international community by developing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction (and the means to deliver them) and exports terrorist operatives to undermine Iran's neighbors and kill our countrymen and women in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
The United States and other nations worry that North Korea's third nuclear test pushed it closer to its goal of gaining nuclear missiles that can reach the U.S. The international community has condemned the regime's nuclear and missile efforts as threats to regional security and a drain on the resources that could go to North Korea's largely destitute people.
But first, you must cease your threats and suspend your nuclear programme And we will work tirelessly with all those in the international community who are ready to reduce the threat of nuclear proliferation.
That this is the case has caused many to believe that the Iranians' economic dissatisfaction will cause the Iranian regime to take a more conciliatory position toward the international community by putting its nuclear program aside.
Over the years, even as North Korea has again distanced itself from the international community and toyed with nuclear ambitions, interest in the zero-coupon, no-income bond has waxed and waned among a select few buyers interested in frontier markets or risky bets.
The greatest threat might well be the first year or more after an attack, particularly if a major economic crisis was accompanied by growing evidence that Iran had proceeded underground and out of sight of the international community to produce a nuclear weapon.
And today, it continues to ignore international community efforts to curtail its nuclear weapons development program.
The negative choice is for the regime to maintain its current course, pursuing nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community and its international obligations.
"If he (Kim) is really determined to defy pressure from the international community and let a third nuclear test go ahead, I would say he is too immature, compared with his late father, when it comes to handling regional relations, " North Korea expert Lu Chao told the newspaper.
Iran has continued in recent months to expand its nuclear-fuel production at its Natanz facility in central Iran even as the international community has strengthened sanctions for what it say is Tehran's pursuit of nuclear arms.
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He has also taken a hard line towards Iran, repeatedly warning of the danger to the international community of allowing it to develop nuclear weapons.
For years, the international community has been attempting to curb nuclear proliferation in one of the most volatile regions of the world, the Middle East.
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Iran clearly is not living up to its international obligations by refusing to take steps to assure the international community that it is not pursuing nuclear weapons.
There is a road out of -- or a path out of this dead end that Iran has been pursuing, which is to honor its international obligations, forsake its nuclear weapons ambitions, and rejoin the international community by living up to its obligations.
And we will continue to put pressure, working unilaterally and with our partners, on the Iranian regime until they make the right choice, which is to abide by their obligations to the United Nations, to the international community, with regards to their nuclear ambitions.
So that is why this administration is so focused on preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and why it is focused on working with our allies to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program so that it can rejoin the community of nations.
Iran would be far more likely to actually use nuclear weapons than any other state up to this point in time, and for this reason, the international community should do whatever is necessary to prevent the regime from developing nuclear weapons in the first place.
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There is a lengthy section in which most agencies of the Intelligence Community judged that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.
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