Nuclear Weapons

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…

Washington’s plans are reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was initially triggered by the US deploying nuclear weapons near the USSR's borders in Turkey.US envoy to Poland Georgette Mosbacher has suggested that Warsaw could agree to host the American nuclear arsenal in Europe if Germany refuses to do so.…

Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has been working on a Metal Gear Solid movie since 2014. Even though we haven’t gotten a lot of updates on the movie over the years, it seems like there has still been progress behind the scenes. The filmmaker gave a tease of some…

The United States publicly threatened on Wednesday to trigger a return of all United Nations sanctions on Iran if the UN Security Council does not extend an arms embargo on Tehran that is due to expire in October under the Iran nuclear deal. US special envoy for Iran Brian Hook…