Nuclear Weapons

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The mob leader also tried to sell thousands of pounds of narcotics and stolen US military weapons. Credit: Dept. of Justice A Japanese Yakuza leader pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for attempting to traffic military-grade weapons and roughly 1,100 lbs of narcotics. Those charges alone will get someone…

The Russian space program reached a significant milestone over the holidays with the 2,000th launch of a rocket from the "R-7" family of boosters. The launch took place on Christmas Day when an R-7 rocket lifted off, carrying a remote-sensing satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This family of rockets has…

Since the end of the Cold War, the world has lived with the threat of nuclear fire. The world’s nine nuclear powers have the ability to end all life on Earth. In Russia and the U.S., the power to launch those world-ending weapons rests in the hands of a single…

U.S. National Security Adviser (NSA), Jake Sullivan The United States National Security Adviser (NSA), Jake Sullivan, has warned President-elect Donald Trump that Iran may seek to develop nuclear weapons following its recent losses in the ongoing regional conflicts. Speaking on Sunday in an interview with CNN, Sullivan said Iran has…

Synopsis A war game simulated a nuclear conflict over Taiwan. The simulation revealed that boosting US nuclear weapons may not stop China from using its own. The study explored scenarios where both sides might use nuclear weapons. Sometimes China used nuclear weapons when facing defeat. In several scenarios, both countries…

Britain, France and Germany accused Iran on Tuesday of growing its stockpile of high enriched uranium to "unprecedented levels" without "any credible civilian justification." The three countries known as the E3 said in a statement ahead of a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday on Tehran's nuclear program that Iran must…

Tehran’s increasingly vulnerable position in the region has energized opposition activists and spurred hardliners to endorse the pursuit of nuclear weapons...Read More

Illustrative: Centrifuge machines at the Natanz nuclear site. US intelligence sources say an explosion destroyed the power that supplies the advanced centrifuges. (Photo: Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Handout/EPA) The United States is growing increasingly concerned about Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, which intelligence officials believe far exceeds levels considered…

Iran claims its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, insisting on its right to develop nuclear energy. However, it is the only non-nuclear-weapon state enriching uranium to 60% purity. This enriched uranium is a step closer to the 90% level required for nuclear weapons read more Representative Image- Reuters Iran…