Nuclear Weapons

Japan said Friday that North Korea posed a more serious threat to its national security than “ever before”, as nuclear-armed Pyongyang rattles its neighbours with repeated missile tests and belligerent rhetoric. In its annual white paper — a rundown of the most pressing military threats and plans to ensure stability…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, left, with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Lukashenko argues that hosting Russian nuclear weapons in his country is meant to deter aggression by Poland. Photo / AP Sometime in the past couple of months, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range…

The U.S. ignored Oppenheimer’s warnings about nuclear weapons and rushed to build and deploy a dangerous technology. We must not make the same mistake with AI American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (far left) points to a picture of the atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki, Japan, as scientist Henry D. Smyth (second…

Thursday 27 July 2023 6:00 am As Christopher Nolan’s epic about Oppenheimer, Godfather of the atomic bomb, hits cinema screens, new research shows banks globally are pulling back from funding nuclear weapons.  According to a new report from Don’t Bank on the Bomb, 109 financial firms worldwide have published policies…

Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons have moved the so-called Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than it’s ever been, and they’ve brought the nightmare vision to a new generation. The clock, maintained by the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists since 1947, in January was moved ahead by 10 seconds to…

Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons have moved the so-called Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than it’s ever been, and they’ve brought the nightmare vision to a new generation. The clock, maintained by the Bulletin for Atomic Scientists since 1947, in January was moved ahead by 10 seconds to…

Historical photo of the Trinity test. Photo: Everett Collection (Shutterstock) As millions of people head to the theaters this weekend to see Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a new study has been released that tracks the radioactive devastation wrought by the U.S. government’s first nuclear weapons test. The “Trinity” test, as…

On July 21, 2023, Christropher Nolan’s Oppenheimer entered wide release. The film follows J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who directed the US program to create the world’s first atomic bombs. The movie, shot in part in New Mexico, tells a story of the bomb and the early Cold War focused…

Updated 3 weeks ago · Published on 20 Jul 2023 11:59PM · With a US nuclear-armed submarine making a port call in South Korea, North Korea is warning Washington it could deploy nuclear weaponry to counter the vessel's presence. – EPA pic, July 20, 2023. NORTH Korea’s Defence Minister Kang…

This editor is Gen X and lived through the Cold War, as well as global cooling, African killer bees, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, and so much more. It's fun to look back on all the '80s music videos and movies warning of mutually assured destruction; the…