Nuclear Disarmament

LONDON (AP) Royalty, politicians and military chiefs are gathering at Westminster Abbey to mark half a century of Britain’s sea-borne nuclear arms program though organizers insist they are not thanking God for atomic weapons. Prince William is set to join th…

GENEVA: Washington has signed more than $1 billion in new missile contracts in the three months since it announced plans to withdraw from a key Cold War-era arms treaty, campaigners said Thursday. "The withdrawal from the INF Treaty has fired the starting pi…

Typically, during periods when inter-Korean dialogue is in a positive phase, the North generally keeps its complaints against the South aimed at the military.  The shift to direct criticism of the authorities is a signal of how much the atmosphere for inter-K…

North Korea has told the US it will face undesired consequences if it fails to readjust its position on nuclear disarmament, in the latest of a series of warnings to Washington and its allies in recent months.  Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, earlier t…

The six-term Indiana Senator engineered the weapons of mass destruction disarmament program with former Soviet Union states that was effective until 2013 and was succeeded by a renewed agreement.Richard G. Lugar, a six-term Republican senator from Indiana, di…

Lugar passed away on Sunday, from complications related to chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, or CIPD, a rare neurological disorder, the Lugar Center in Washington said in a statement. In his 36 years in the Senate, Lugar is chiefly remembere…

(INDIANAPOLIS) — Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his fi…

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, leader in nuclear disarmament, other foreign affairs issues, dies at age 87. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Moscow has welcomed US President Donald Trump's proposal to Russia and China on nuclear disarmament and asked for more details. Alexander Gillespie, professor of international law at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, has spoken with Sputnik about the …

Kremlin Welcomes Trump's Proposal to Reduce Nuclear Arsenal, But Needs Details