Nuclear Weapons

SEOUL: North Korea will keep its nuclear weapons "forever", its foreign minister vowed on Thursday (Sep 24), dismissing the South Korean president's renewed calls for a denuclearised Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang has legally enshrined its status as a nuclear-armed state, with its leadership repeatedly declaring the country's atomic arsenal permanent and…

Updated September 23, 2026 — 12:05am, first published September 22, 2026 — 2:46am New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says artificial intelligence demands the “same sense of urgency” as nuclear weapons did, warning that technology “without accountability” threatens humanity. Addressing the UN General Assembly, Guterres noted that developers were…

Society / September 21, 2026 As long as we have nuclear weapons, the job of ending humanity will continue to be as easy as the push of a button—or an AI agent hacking into a nuclear command-and-control system. A nuclear explosion at the Nevada Test Site in 1953.(Courtesy of the…

A wildly inaccurate U.S. military intelligence report produced with artificial intelligence almost started World War III, CNN reported Friday. In the spring, U.S. military officials launched an operation to intercept a Chinese ship they believed was transporting nuclear weapons materials in the Middle East. Service members prepared to board ships,…

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Armed Conflicts, Asia-Pacific, Crime & Justice, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Central Asian states mark the 20th anniversary of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty with a joint foreign ministers' statement Credit: Kazakhstan MFA TOKYO, Japan, Sep 11 2026 (IPS) - Twenty…

The southern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is known as the Copperbelt because of its rich deposits of copper and other minerals. The area was the original source of uranium ore for the first nuclear weapons built by the US’s Manhattan Project (1942 and 1947). Two atomic…

Sharmila Kuthunur is an independent space journalist based in Bengaluru, India. Her work has also appeared in Scientific American, Science, Astronomy and Space.com, among other publications. She holds a master's degree in journalism from Northeastern University in Boston. Follow her on BlueSky @skuthunur.bsky.social Read More

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Yard sign opposing the proposed University of Michigan/Los Alamos National Laboratory computing center in Ypsilanti Township. Elinor Epperson / Michigan Advance Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The University of Michigan’s proposed computing facility in Ypsilanti Township is the…