Nuclear Weapons

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…

Eighty years ago, the American government began the mammoth scientific undertaking of developing fully operational nuclear weapons. At its peak, the Manhattan Project employed 130,000 people, and its total cost ran to $2 billion (equivalent to $23 billion today). Nowadays, global efforts to mitigate climate change are reaching an even…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually expressed in the hundreds of billions of dollars and involve decades of work. But one project on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is progressing at a much lower price. The federal government is…

The Pentagon on Nov 3, 2021 projected that China could possibly have 1,000 nuclear weapons by 2030. (File photo: Reuters) Washington has repeatedly called on China to join it and Russia in a new arms control treaty.Reuters WashingtonLast Updated:November 03, 2021, 22:58 ISTFOLLOW US ON:The Pentagon on Wednesday sharply increased…

TOKYO (AP) — Sunao Tsuboi, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing who made opposing nuclear weapons the message of his life, including in a meeting with President Barack Obama in 2016, has died. He was 96. Tsuboi died Oct. 24 in a hospital in Hiroshima in southwestern Japan. The…

The strategy, which is confidential, goes beyond existing regional defence plans and aims to prepare for any simultaneous attack in the Baltic and Black Sea regions, possibly including nuclear weapons Topics NATO alliance | Russia | nuclear weapons Reuters  Last Updated at October 21, 2021 23:37 IST NATO NATO defence ministers are set to…