Nuclear Weapons

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…

Iran’s president, Hassan Rouhani, has said the country will respond to the killing of one of the country’s most senior scientists, who was identified by Israel as having headed a secret nuclear weapons programme. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the architect of Tehran’s nuclear strategy, was killed on Friday on a highway near the capital in…

Tehran, Iran (CNN)Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has vowed revenge after the killing of the country's chief nuclear scientist, as top officials pile blame on Israel. Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who became the face of Iran's controversial nuclear program, was killed in a district east of Tehran on Friday, in what…

He was one of Iran’s preeminent nuclear scientists, the country’s answer to Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to build a nuclear bomb during World War II.As an officer in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard and a physics professor in Tehran, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi was involved for decades…

The “continuity of government” problem is an artifact of the nuclear age. What happens to the national command authority vested in the president—and what happens to nuclear deterrence—if a surprise attack decapitates the U.S. leadership? The fear of a first-strike targeting nuclear weapons against the president and others at the…

For all our fears about Terminator-style killer robots, the aim of AI in the U.S. military is likely to be on augmenting humans, not replacing them.Why it matters: AI has been described as the "third revolution" in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear weapons. But every revolution carries risks, and even…

WASHINGTON – Over the past week, President Donald Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials, a senior climate scientist and the leader of the agency that safeguards nuclear weapons. Engineering much of…

© . Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the U.S. Department of Energy and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security AdministrationLisa Gordon-Hagerty tours the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama in BangorWASHINGTON () – The head of the agency that oversees the U.S. fleet of nuclear weapons has resigned, the…