Nuclear Weapons

Jerusalem Post / Diaspora / Antisemitism Netanyahu accuses Spain's Sanchez of ‘genocidal threat’ after nuclear weapons comment In his speech on Monday, Pedro Sanchez said "Spain, as you know, doesn’t have nuclear bombs, nor aircraft carriers, nor large oil reserves. We alone can’t stop the Israeli offensive." Spanish Prime Minister…

Vienna – Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger on Monday warned of rising nuclear risks and an “appalling crisis” in international affairs, calling for a “paradigm shift” away from nuclear weapons and urging remaining states to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Speaking at the opening of the CTBT’s Science and…

United Kingdom's Ambassador to the United Nations Barbara Woodward, accompanied by other E3 members German Ambassador Ricklef Beutin and Deputy French Ambassador Jay Dharmadhikari, speaks to members of the press about Iran and nuclear weapons outside the UN Security Council chamber at UN Headquarters in New York City, US, August…

Vox editor-in-chief & publisher Swati Sharma announced that senior correspondent Joshua Keating has been named a 2025 Outrider Fellow, joining a distinguished cohort of journalists supported by the Outrider Foundation . The fellowship, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners , includes a grant to fund Keating’s continued reporting on the…

August 15, 2025 The war in Ukraine is a regional security and humanitarian tragedy, but regarding nuclear weapons, Washington and Moscow stand to benefit from working together. Donald Trump walks with Vladimir Putin before taking a family photo at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019.(Brendan Smialowski /…

(RNS) — On the anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago, faith-based peace activists gathered at the Pentagon and the White House to call for nuclear disarmament and an end to war. The rally, called a “nonviolent witness” by its organizers, brought together participants…

James Cameron believes that if artificial intelligence is misused, society might soon resemble the dystopian world of Terminator. The director expressed his concerns to Rolling Stone while speaking about Charles Pellegrino’s novel Ghosts of Hiroshima, which Cameron will soon be adapting for the big screen. “I do think there’s still…

Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern Japanese city 80 years ago and survivors are working to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb. The atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, killed some 70,000 people,…

If North Korea launched a nuclear missile toward the United States, the president would only have a few minutes to act and leave the White House. A realistic simulation has shown exactly what might happen in such a terrifying situation. Right now, nine countries in the world have nuclear weapons.…

The people who study nuclear war for a living are certain that artificial intelligence will soon power the deadly weapons. None of them are quite sure what, exactly, that means. In the middle of July, Nobel laureates gathered at the University of Chicago to listen to nuclear war experts talk…