Nuclear Weapons

North Korea has accelerated its weapons testing in 2022, conducting five missile tests since the start of the year and recently suggesting that it may resume testing nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. Some analysts say the ramped-up testing is an expected progression of the North's military strategy, and that it…

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week signed an interagency memo with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to advance wind energy responsibly while protecting biodiversity and promoting cooperative ocean use. The Biden administration set a goal of significantly increasing the nation’s offshore wind energy capacity. This…

LONDON: Last year ranked as the sixth-warmest year on record, causing extreme weather events around the world and adding to evidence supporting the globe's long-term warming, according to an analysis on Thursday by two US government agencies. The data compiled by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and…

Climate researchers from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will release their annual assessments of global temperatures and discuss the major climate trends of 2021 during a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 13...Read More

North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, in its first such launch since October. The missile landed in water between the Korean peninsula and Japan, bringing condemnation from Seoul and Tokyo. The United Nations (UN) prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear…

/ 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…