Nuclear Weapons

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States faces a tough, messy battle if it uses a threat to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran as leverage to get the 15-member Security Council to extend and strengthen an arms embargo on Tehran, diplomats said. FILE PHOTO: Attendees…

By Sangmi ChaSEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has never publicised who would follow leader Kim Jong Un in the event he is incapacitated, and with no details known about his young children, analysts say his sister and loyalists could form a regency until a successor is old enough to take…

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said on Wednesday that it launched a military satellite into orbit amid wider tensions with the United States, describing it as a successful launch after months of failures.There was no immediate independent confirmation of the launch of the satellite, which the Guard called “Noor," or light.…

SEOUL- South Korean and Chinese sources on Tuesday cast doubt on reports North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was gravely ill after media outlets said he had undergone a cardiovascular procedure in hospital and was in "grave danger". Daily NK, a Seoul-based speciality website, reported late on Monday citing one…

Here's What You Need To Remember: It is unlikely, but hardly impossible, that Israel could decide to use nuclear weapons first in a future conflict. The best way to prevent this from happening is to limit the reasons why Israel might want to use these weapons, which is to say…

WASHINGTON: China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the United States State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel US-China tensions. The finding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may worsen ties…

A U.S. P-8A reconnaissance plane was soaring above the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday when a Russian SU-35 fighter jet appeared on its tail. For 42 minutes, U.S. Navy officials say, the Russian pilot flew in an “unsafe” manner—at one-point flying upside down and sweeping within 25 feet of the plane’s…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China may have secretly set off low-level underground nuclear test explosions despite claiming to observe an international pact banning such blasts, the U.S. State Department said in a report on Wednesday that could fuel U.S.-Chinese tensions. The finding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, may worsen…

Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector during work on the detectors.Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. Tokyo Nuclear-weapons physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines considered the neutrino “the smallest bit of material reality ever conceived of by man” .That was in a commentary1 for Nature in 1956, published a few months after…

Inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector during work on the detectors.Credit: Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, Univ. Tokyo Nuclear-weapons physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines considered the neutrino “the smallest bit of material reality ever conceived of by man” .That was in a commentary1 for Nature in 1956, published a few months after…