Nuclear Weapons

The Atomic Weapons Establishment campus in Aldermaston. Image © 2023 Google The Ministry of Defence’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is looking to speak to suppliers as it shapes multibillion-pound infrastructure plans. The body, which is responsible for the UK’s nuclear weapons, has issued a prior information notice (PIN) for its…

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to launch three new spy satellites, build military drones and increase his country's stock of nuclear weapons in 2024. Mr Kim said moves by the US and its allies against Pyongyang have been unprecedented in 2023, pushing the Korean Peninsula to the…

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a year-end plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, which was held between Dec. 26, and Dec. 30, 2023, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover…

SEOUL, South Korea —  The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan called Saturday for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles, its cybertheft activities and alleged arms transfers to Russia. The meeting in Seoul came as tensions on…

SEOUL, South Korea — The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan called on Saturday for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles and its military cooperation with other countries amid concerns about its alleged arms transfers to Russia.…

Superpower director Sean Penn isn’t mincing words in his denunciation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two-time Oscar-winning actor, whose new documentary about the war in Ukraine is now streaming on Paramount+, calls the Kremlin leader “a gangster with nuclear weapons,” in an interview with Deadline. His comments came during…

This year marks the seventy-eighth anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs directly caused the deaths of an estimated 110,000 – 210,000 people. While significant, that number does not do justice to the long-lasting consequences for those who were beneath the mushroom cloud.  Their suffering has…

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO —  New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing. The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time…

ABSTRACT breaks down mind-bending scientific research, future tech, new discoveries, and major breakthroughs. Nuclear weapons tests that took place in the mid-20th century are still a major source of radioactivity in Germany’s wild boars, accounting for anywhere from 10 to 68 percent of contamination in meat samples from these animals,…

Moscow has said that it will not abandon the international treaty that bans nuclear weapons testing, unless the United States resumes test explosions first, a Russian newspaper has reported. Russia was among the 185 signatories to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996, which bans atomic weapons test explosions. The…