Nuclear Weapons

Left-wing Democratic lawmakers have called on the United States to break its silence on Israel's suspected nuclear weapons program, shattering a decades-long bipartisan reticence in Washington on the sensitive issue. Israel is widely believed to have developed nuclear weapons in the 1960s but keeps a deliberately ambiguous policy by neither…

North Korea's U.N. envoy said Thursday that Pyongyang is not bound by the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. In this photo, North Korea shows off an ICBM at a military parade in Pyongyang in October. File Photo by KCNA/EPA SEOUL, May 7 (UPI) -- North Korea is not bound by the global…

Last Updated: May 06, 2026, 22:50 IST Donald Trump says Iran wants a deal with the US at any cost, calls current tensions a skirmish, claims control of regional waters, vows Iran will never get nuclear weapons. US President Donald Trump. (Reuters Image) US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signalled…

Under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon its nuclear programme, Iran has “vowed” to protect its nuclear stockpile. At the same time, former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei disapproved of the use of nuclear weapons on religious grounds. How does Iran reconcile the two positions? The Treaty on…

Conferences, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Nuclear Disarmament Izumi Nakamitsu, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, at a press conference on the 11th Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the…

ISLAMABAD/WASHINGTON: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi laid out Iran's demands and its reservations about U.S. positions on Saturday as Islamabad hosted a new push to end a war that has killed thousands and roiled global markets. Though details ​of the talks were scant, Araqchi met Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif…

President Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out using nuclear weapons against Iran, a notable pullback after months of increasingly alarming threats that had raised fears of a wider Middle East conflict. “No, I wouldn’t use it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday when asked…

Updated 20 April 2026 at 20:42 IST Offering some optimism in the second round of delegation-level talks between Iran and the US, Trump said, “And if Iran’s new leaders (Regime Change!) are smart, Iran can have a great and prosperous future! President DJT.” Israel Never Talked Me Into War, Says…

North Korea launched multiple short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea on Sunday, its neighbours said, days after the UN’s nuclear watchdog warned that North Korea was making “very serious” advances in efforts to build nuclear weapons. The missiles fired from the North’s Sinpo area flew about 140 kilometres (87 miles)…

Russia is ready to take in Iran's enriched uranium as part of a future peace deal with the United States, the Kremlin said on Monday. Failed talks between Iran and the United States over the weekend dashed hopes of a swift deal to permanently end the war that has killed…