Nuclear Weapons

Nancy Pelosi calls for Trump to be removed via 25th AmendmentSpeaker Nancy Pelosi has urged the Pentagon’s top general to prevent “unstable” Donald Trump from launching a military conflict or using assigned codes to launch US nuclear weapons. In a letter to House Democrats, Ms Pelosi said: “This morning, I…

A dazed feeling, somewhere between nausea and numbness, washed over me Wednesday afternoon. It conjured up the way I felt after the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968. And it brought back that horrible morning in 2001 when planes flew into the twin towers. But never…

In 1991 two hikers in the Italian Alps stumbled on a mummified body buried in the ice. The Iceman, it turned out, died more than 5,000 years ago. At first, archeologists assumed he’d fallen in a snowstorm and frozen to death. Then they discovered various cuts and bruises on his…

Every recent US administration has performed a perverse ritual as it has come into office. All have agreed to undermine US law by signing secret letters stipulating they will not acknowledge something everyone knows: that Israel has a nuclear weapons arsenal. Part of the reason for this is to stop…

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…