Nuclear Weapons

Foreign Affairs For now, President Trump should seek to freeze, not end, Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. American foreign policy is often built on illusions. One is that North Korea must not possess nuclear weapons. Of course, it developed them long ago. The only questions today are how many nukes will…

North Korea has issued a stark nuclear weapons warning, saying it will “counter the enemies’ strategic threat with our strategic means”. This alarming statement was released by the chief of the Information Office at the DPRK Ministry of National Defence on Friday. The North Korean regime accused the US and…

WASHINGTON - Dozens of U.S. Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday urged Secretary of State Marco Rubio to work with Congress to renew a U.S.-Russia nuclear weapons pact that expires next year, saying that even during tense times the agreement has reduced the risk of nuclear war. The lawmakers, including U.S. Senators…

You may think we have too many nuclear weapons. Or you may think we don’t have enough. One thing you most certainly do not think, however, is that we should arbitrarily fire the people who keep these weapons safe and secure. But that is exactly what happened last week when…

The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programmes, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting would put communities at risk. Three US officials who spoke to…

The startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces…

WASHINGTON — The Trump Administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation’s nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that has left workers confused and experts cautioning that DOGE’s blind cost cutting will put communities at risk. Three U.S. officials who…

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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk purged fewer than 50 workers from the agency that maintains the country's nuclear weapons arsenal, the Department of Energy said on Feb 16, after far wider layoffs there were suddenly rescinded, causing chaos among staff. On Feb 14, sources…

The US agency charged with overseeing nuclear weapons is looking to contact workers who were fired on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s federal cost-cutting measures, but are now needed back. Officials with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) attempted to notify some probationary employees who had been let…