Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
2008 Germany Special Weapons News
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- Germany stockpiled hundreds of atomic weapons: report IRNA 16 Nov 2008- Germany stockpiled around 700 atomic bombs which the US had provided to Germany, the online site of the Munich-based weekly Focus news magazine quoted German historian Detlef Bald as saying Sunday
- Germany reports 122 'notifiable incidents' at nuclear power plants IRNA 26 Jul 2008 -- German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety said Saturday that 122 incidents were subject to reporting at the country's nuclear power plants last year, according to the Munich-based Focus news magazine.
- Russia to launch another German spy satellite on March 25 RIA Novosti 20 Mar 2008 -- The launch of a Russian carrier rocket with a German SAR-Lupe satellite from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia has been scheduled for March 25, the Khrunichev Center said on Thursday.
- New malfunction reported at deactivated N.German nuclear plant IRNA 21 Feb 2008 -- A malfunctioning transformer led to an unintentional shutdown of the emergency power system of an offline nuclear plant in northern Germany which had been the scene of numerous glitches in the past, press reports said Thursday.
- Germany says plans to set up int'l enrichment center IRNA 19 Feb 2008 -- Germany is actively campaigning among member states of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency in a bid to seek support for an international uranium enrichment center, the foreign ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday.
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