Nuclear Weapons

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke on Sunday on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, declaring that nuclear weapons must be eliminated from the world and a new era of dialogue, trust and peace must begin. Addressing the threat of nuclear weapons "has been central to…

The United States would not support redeploying tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea, or a nuclear weapons sharing arrangement with Seoul, according to a U.S. State Department official, after a leading South Korean presidential candidate proposed the move. "All I can say is, U.S. policy would not support that. And…

The U.S. Senate on Wednesday issued a warning against "rogue state" North Korea's development of nuclear weapons that threaten the U.S. and its allies. The warning came after the International Atomic Energy Agency earlier this week said the North is resuming production of weapons-grade nuclear materials. In a report as…

The kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia used their speeches to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday to urge a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by creating a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital. Jordan’s monarch recalled the 11-days of fighting between Israel and the Gaza Strip…

I am trying to wrap my head round the next country the U.S. will go to war with. I think Russia or China will be too strong, so I am ruling them out. America may also be unwilling to take on North Korea, which is busy testing its nuclear weapons.…

President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday travel to New York to participate in the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, in confirmation of SaharaReporters’ report on September 10.  According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, Buhari will address the Assembly during the General Debates on Friday, September 24 when…

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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. YONGBYON: Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a "deeply troubling" development, the United Nations atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons program. The development of the 5-megawatt reactor in Yongbyon…