Nuclear Weapons

While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms by billions of dollars with bipartisan congressional support.…

North Korean defectors send balloons carrying anti-Pyongyang leaflets across the border from the South Korean border city of Paju. Photo: EPA South Korea earlier this month banned activists from using helium-filled balloons to carry leaflets criticising North Korea across the border The practice has long been a source of conflict…

Thousands of companies and US government agencies were at risk of being spied on for months following a sweeping cyberattack reportedly carried out by Russian hackers. The full extent of the attack is not yet known, but the list of victims is said to include the Department of Homeland Security…

Dec. 15 (UPI) -- NATO released a statement Tuesday explaining its opposition to the United Nations' new treaty banning nuclear weapons. The alliance said it is committed to the preservation and strengthening of arms control, disarmament and non-profileration, but that the treaty "is at odds with the existing non-proliferation and…

Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community “In a relatively short time, we’ve taken a system built to resist destruction by nuclear weapons and made it vulnerable to toasters.” Jeff Jarmoc’s sadly hilarious tweet about Internet security in the wake…

Sixty years after the first nuclear weapons tests were conducted in Africa, many countries on continent are exploring how nuclear energy could be used for socio-economic development. Seventeen African states have already expressed interest: some have active nuclear research and development programmes, while others are investigating the possibility of a…

The comments from Washington’s deputy special representative for North Korea marked an acknowledgement of US policy failure on Pyongyang While US officials have in the past noted that China was not adhering to sanctions, they have rarely been so blunt in calling out the country’s behaviour Topic |   North Korea E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635…

Updated 11/6/2020 at 7:17 PM EST with comment from Inhofe.WASHINGTON — Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has resigned her position effectively immediately, Defense News has learned.Gordon-Hagerty, who became the first woman to lead the NNSA in February 2018, sent her letter of resignation to the…

Richard Goldberg, New York Post November 29, 2020 (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) Friday’s apparent assassination of the founder of Iran’s nuclear weapons program wasn’t just a setback for the regime’s nuclear ambitions — it was a timely reminder that the Iran nuclear deal was built on Iranian deception…

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Supreme Leaders official website on 27 November, 2020, shows scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Assassinated high-ranking iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, allegedly led a life of such secrecy that even his age was under wraps.To the general public, he is believed to have led the clandestine nuclear…