Nuclear Weapons

Americans are no strangers to times that ‘try men’s souls,’ to borrow a phrase from Thomas Paine. By mid-1945, we had been at war for three-and-a-half years, enduring the draft, mounting numbers of casualties, and rationing, with no end in sight. Many Americans were weary, not unlike our feelings now,…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hailed his country's nuclear weapons as a powerful deterrent against military threats, state media reported, as prospects of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula continue to dim amid stalled talks with Washington.“We have become able to reliably defend ourselves against any form of high-intensity pressure and…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Russian navy will be armed with hypersonic nuclear weapons and underwater nuclear drones. The weapons, some of which have yet to be deployed, include the Poseidon underwater nuclear drone, designed to be carried by submarines, and the Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile, which…

By Michelle NicholsNEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 40 countries accused North Korea on Friday of illicitly breaching a United Nations cap on refined petroleum imports and called for an immediate halt to deliveries until the end of the year, according to a complaint seen by Reuters.The 15-member U.N. Security…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officials at one of the nation’s premier nuclear labs are investigating the potential exposure of employees to plutonium. Los Alamos National Laboratory confirmed Monday that 15 workers were being evaluated after a breach involving a gloved box that was being used to handle the material. The…

The head of the Israeli spy agency has apparently confirmed Israeli involvement in an attack on Iran’s main uranium enrichment plant last Thursday.Yossi Cohen, director of Mossad, is accused of leaking details of the Israeli move to sabotage Iran’s nuclear weapons programme.Avigdor Lieberman, the former defence minister, did not mention Cohen…

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…