Nuclear Weapons

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…

The comments from Washington’s deputy special representative for North Korea marked an acknowledgement of US policy failure on Pyongyang While US officials have in the past noted that China was not adhering to sanctions, they have rarely been so blunt in calling out the country’s behaviour Topic |   North Korea E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635…

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…