Nuclear Weapons

Hand-wringing and recriminations have followed Canada's failure to secure one of two highly-coveted seats on the UN Security Council. The decisive defeat came after the Trudeau government spent $2.3 million promoting its candidacy. Its message: after the international indifference of the Harper years, a kinder, more caring Canada was back.…

Tucked deep inside the Senate’s defense authorization bill is a provision that experts say would give nuclear weapons advocates extraordinary new power to influence the president’s budget every year.A behind-the-scenes argument among senators over the proposal’s huge budgetary ramifications is now starting to trickle out onto the Senate floor as…

By: Reuters | Washington/seoul | Updated: June 26, 2020 11:25:33 am President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone at Panmunjom, June 30, 2019. (File Photo/Erin Schaff/The New York Times)Nearly one year after U.S. President Donald Trump and…

North Korea continued to produce nuclear weapons even in February last year when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi with a promise of "complete denuclearization," a U.S. State Department report suggests.In the report submitted to Congress on Tuesday, the State Department said, "Throughout…

Adrienne Dunn USA TODAYPublished 6:54 PM EDT Jun 24, 2020The claim: Buffalo protester, Martin Gugino, has been arrested more than 300 timesAmid weeks of protests against police brutality in the U.S. police departments have clashed with protesters across the country.In Buffalo, New York, police on June 4 were shown on camera…

The United States and Russia hope to meet for a second round of nuclear arms control talks in Vienna, possibly in late July or early August, the US envoy to the negotiations said on Tuesday. The first round took place the previous day.US Special Presidential Envoy for Arms Control Marshall…

Click here to read the full article.Key Point: This machine gun is powerful and keeps being upgraded. In fact, few weapons have its impressive stopping power and ruggedness.More From The National Interest: Yes, America Has a ‘Ninja’ Missile How China Could Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier How the F-35 Stealth Fighter Almost Never…

If you want to understand just how badly US negotiations to control the spread of nuclear weapons are going, all you need to do is look at a tweet from the country’s top arms control negotiator. On Monday, Marshall Billingslea began two days of talks with his Russian counterpart over…

Ahead of nuclear talks in Vienna with the U.S., Russia's deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, said Russia would like to find "the easiest way possible forward" to discuss the future of nuclear weapons.June 22, 2020Read More

published : 22 Jun 2020 at 09:45 The New START nuclear disarmament treaty between Russia and the United States is set to expire in February 2021. VIENNA: The United States and Russia meet Monday in Vienna for talks on their last major nuclear weapons agreement against a backdrop of growing…