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Over the past few months, the media has been abuzz with fears, threats, and uncertainties regarding the Iranian nuclear program. Nuclear technology was first introduced to Iran by the United States in the 1960s, and today Iran retains...
April 24, 2012 3:56 pm / no comments
Much to the dismay of the European Union, the United States and Israel, Iran has been aggressively pursuing a nuclear energy program. Iran has consistently claimed that it wants nuclear power for the peaceful purposes of providing domestic...
March 11, 2012 3:50 pm / 6 comments
For four long years Ms. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been awaiting her fate, at the mercy of the Iranian Islamic Republic. Sentenced to death by stoning in 2006 to the questionable charges of adultery and being an accomplice in the murder...
September 8, 2010 6:07 pm / 1 comment
..And in the future, they knighted Mick Jagger!
For this week’s edition of Talking Heads, WUPR was able to procure a time machine though our extensive and possibly sinister connections. WUPR was purchasing our Student Union allotted...
May 3, 2010 2:43 pm / 1 comment
Yesterday the Revolutionary Guard, the elite sector of the Iranian military, held war games in the Hormuz Strait, a strategic part of the Persian Gulf oil route, in a move clearly designed to provoke the United States and demonstrate Iran’s...
April 23, 2010 2:53 pm / 1 comment
Obama speaking at the Nuclear Security Summit
Earlier this week President Barack Obama hosted the Nuclear Security Summit, attended by delegates and heads of states of 47 nations. Among the primary desires voiced by Obama were for governments...
April 13, 2010 7:49 pm / no comments
Hiroshima, 1945
Japan in 1945..
The nuclear age begins when America uses the first atom bombs, Fat Man and Little Boy, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, bringing World War II to an end. Nearly a decade of physics research and...
April 12, 2010 5:00 am / 1 comment
Netanyahu and Joe Biden in better times
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced yesterday that he is canceling his planned attendance to an international summit on nuclear weapons, putting further strain on already tense relations...
April 9, 2010 2:48 pm / no comments
Metro: Vital to St Louis
Briskly walking down the corridor of the second floor of Eads, Emily was bent on getting to Holmes Lounge before the lunch hour rush stormed in.
“Hey Emily, wait up!” called a voice from behind her. Emily turned...
April 2, 2010 5:00 am / no comments
Iran faces sanctions from China and Russia
In a surprise move earlier today, China and Russia both indicated their willingness to set economic sanctions against Iran in order to deter it from developing nuclear weapons. The two countries, however,...
March 31, 2010 10:40 am / no comments