Nuclear Weapons

/ Americas Issued on: 03/01/2022 - 17:45 France’s Centre for scientific and technical study in Aquitaine (CESTA/CEA) is a research facility dedicated to designing nuclear weapons, France, October 28, 2014. © AFP (Archives) China Tuesday said it will continue to "modernise" its nuclear arsenal and called on the United States…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House nearly a year ago seemed to herald a historic shift toward less U.S. reliance on nuclear weapons and possibly a shrinking of their numbers. Even an American “no first use” pledge — a promise to never again be the first…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States, according to summaries by state media on Saturday. North Korea's main goals for 2022 will be jump…

Russia says it wants to negotiate a legally binding guarantee that the NATO military alliance would give up any military activity in eastern Europe and Ukraine. The demands form a package that Russia says is an essential requirement for lowering tensions in Europe and defusing a crisis over Ukraine, which…

Plutonium pits, the potent hearts of modern nuclear weapons, degrade over time. As these cores decay, so too does the certainty that they will work as designed when detonated. Los Alamos National Laboratory, the organization that grew out of the Manhattan Project to design and equip the nuclear arsenal of…

A top Russian diplomat has warned that Moscow will respond "militarily" and deploy tactical nuclear weapons, if NATO does not guarantee an end to its eastward expansion. His remarks raise the stakes even higher in the confrontation between Russia and Western powers just days after U.S. President Joe Biden and…

FOREIGN SECRETARY Liz Truss has handed Iran a "last chance" to respond to the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at the G7 summit. Liz Truss: Iran's last chance to agree to the JCPOA terms Sign up to receive our rundown of the day's top stories direct…

The Pentagon has asked a Washington thinktank to draw up a report on the future of the US intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) programme and deliver it before the end of January. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) will present options based on three rounds of virtual consultations, which began…

Wacky and delusional: Inside the Greens’ defence plan The Greens have been slammed by all sides of politics for releasing a “wacky” defence policy that would cancel AUKUS and cut military spending by 50 per cent. There is more to this story But it’s a member-only story. Subscribe today to…

UN nuclear inspectors have warned part of their surveillance of Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme has gone dark. The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said his inspectors are close to being unable to "guarantee" they know the size of Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium after a fruitless trip to…