French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday that France would cut its nuclear arsenal to about half of its Cold War number - even as he warned against possible defense threats posed by Iran, among others.

South Korea's chief official on North Korea policy has warned a continued lack of progress in talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons could threaten the growth of a joint industrial park. The park, built by South Korea in the Northern city of Kaesong, was considered all but untouchable by previous administrations.

The United States Ambassador to South Korea says Washington must receive a complete nuclear declaration from Pyongyang before it can remove North Korea from American list of states sponsoring terrorism. As VOA Seoul Correspondent Kurt Achin reports, an American ambassador says the North is failing to send a "clear signal" it intends to follow through on its promises.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says his government still believes Iran is using its nuclear program to develop "non-conventional weapons."

Researchers at Purdue University are working with the state of Indiana to develop a system that would use a network of cell phones to detect and track radiation to help prevent terrorist attacks with radiological "dirty bombs" and nuclear weapons.

A new US intelligence report says Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and it remains on hold, contradicting the Bush administration's earlier assertion that Tehran was intent on developing a bomb.

The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, says the country's nuclear weapons are safe as long as the military stays in charge.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said in a U.S. television interview that Iran does not need nuclear weapons and that he does not believe the United States and Iran are on a path to war.

Western news agencies have quoted a confidential report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as saying that Iran is cooperating with IAEA inspectors to resolve outstanding issues.

President George W Bush on Wednesday raised the specter of a "nuclear holocaust" in the Middle East if Israel's arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen.

The head of the State Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee has said Russia currently has no plans to deploy nuclear weapons beyond its territory, characterizing suggestions that Belarus could host nuclear-related weaponry as "theoretical."

In his first major foreign policy speech as French president, Nicolas Sarkozy said that an Iran with nuclear weapons was unacceptable. And he warned that Iran could be attacked militarily if it did not meet its international obligations to curb its nuclear program.