Nuclear Weapons

Here's What You Need To Remember: Taiwan’s nuclear program was under careful surveillance by the United States, which recognized Taiwan as the rightful Chinese government and protected the country from the mainland. Still, Washington was afraid a Taiwanese bomb would unnecessarily enrage China, and by 1966 took steps to prevent…

Valerie Plame photographed in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photos: Benjamin RasmussenValerie Plame worked for the CIA and tangled with Bush. Now she wants to fight Trump from Congress.Ten Thousand Waves Spa is a pagoda of Zen steam on the New Mexico high desert. Behind the sliding doors…

Skip to content Group used over 200 shell companies to channel over $2.5 billion in assets to DPRK Is the Trump Administration finally coming around to the notion that disarming North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is never going to happen? Well, at least not while the Kims are still in power.Since…

There's plenty of ammunition against the administration on the weapons front, but this rumor-based story hardly explodes.The Washington Post recently published an article which quotes an unnamed “senior administration official” and two unnamed “former officials familiar with the deliberations” as saying that during the course of a “meeting of senior…

South Korean soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, on the South Korean island of Ganghwa A United Nations investigation into a recent exchange of gunfire between North Korea and South Korea has determined that both countries violated the armistice that ended the…

May 23, 2020 | 8:23am | Updated May 23, 2020 | 8:24am The Trump Administration is actively considering the possibility of conducting a nuclear test, something the United States has not done since 1992. The topic was broached at a May 15 meeting of top officials from various national security…

SINCE TESTING its first nuclear bomb 56 years ago, China has never revealed even a ballpark figure for the size of its arsenal. So recent debate on Chinese social media about the number of warheads the country ought to amass has been striking for its specificity. It began on May…

Kiev should “insist” that NATO pays out $200 billion for Ukraine’s decision to abandon nuclear weapons more than a quarter of a century ago, a former Ukrainian lawmaker said, arguing that the move saved the alliance a fortune. Back in the mid-1990s Ukraine ditched the nuclear arsenal that it inherited…

GM’s Silao plant in Mexico, planning re-opening tomorrow.Photo: GMThe Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn't your time more important?Yesterday workers started making their way back to assembly lines in America, but as we’ve covered before, all of their work hinges on supply chains in Mexico.…

During the Cold War, France had Germany zeroed in with tactical nuclear missiles—in case of a Soviet invasion. Strategic Dyad Today, France has the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world, behind the United States and Russia. Unlike the American or Russian nuclear triad, which is made up of air- land- and…