So why, you might ask, would India choose this moment to go nuclear?

ECONOMIST: A waste of nationalist pride

But it is not realistic to expect that the United States of America can get, at this moment, 80 percent of its energy from nuclear power -- as France does, for example -- or 30 percent of its energy from wind sources, as other countries her in Europe do.

CNN: Karen Hughes discusses Bush's global agenda

The moustachioed Mr Peretz, who campaigned on a social-economic platform, was a natural target for cartoonists joking about his coming moment of initiation into the state's intelligence and nuclear secrets.

ECONOMIST: Israel's new government

Start made dramatic reductions in nuclear forces of some 80% but the key point at this moment is that it contains binding agreements on verification and when the treaty runs out so do those commitments.

BBC: US and Russia press the reset button

Nuclear weapons have helped to encourage the crisis but are also, for the moment, helping to contain it.

ECONOMIST: Klashmir again

The nuclear strategy will not take U.S. nuclear weapons off submarines, bombers and missiles that could fire them at a moment's notice.

WSJ: U.S. Keeps First-Strike Nuclear Strategy

The Obama administration must seize this moment as an opportunity not only to articulate a plan for North Korean nuclear disarmament but to take concrete steps towards a secure and stable Korean Peninsula.

CNN: Commentary: Bill Clinton shows that diplomacy works

Eric let us be realistic for a moment and be more pragmatic about the energy resources of the world and the consequences of nuclear fallout.

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