Nuclear Weapons

By News from Elsewhere... ...as found by BBC Monitoring Image copyright CJ ENM Image caption Crash Landing on You tells an inter-Korean love story North Korean media has lashed out at recent South Korean dramas and films for showing the North in a bad light and engaging in "atrocious provocation".…

Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan.   “There has been no change in India’s nuclear doctrine,” Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan said in the Lok Sabha There has been no change in India’s nuclear doctrine, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on March 4.Also…

A Titan II ICBM site, decommissioned in 1982, at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Ariz. (Nicole Neri/Reuters) Fred Kaplan in The Bomb unravels the history of bureaucratic infighting over nuclear weapons.Though Fred Kaplan’s new book The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War is, for the…

Interim managers ready to go. £93m budget locked and loaded. No lets not talk about the size of the US National Quantum Initiative Program An interim management team for the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQQC) has been named with responsibility to get the centre built and sketch out its priorities.…

(BRUSSELS) — Ambassadors from the NATO military alliance were to hold emergency talks Friday at the request of Turkey following the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement that Friday morning’s talks would be held under Article 4 of NATO’s founding…

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. — When the Trump administration’s budget request rolled out Feb. 10, eyebrows shot up within the nuclear community at the mention of a previously unknown warhead, listed in documents as the W93. Now the Pentagon is revealing details about the weapon, what it will replace…

Photograph: Susan Walsh/APThe US conducted a military exercise last week which simulated a “limited” nuclear exchange with Russia, a senior Pentagon official has confirmed.The war game is notable because of the defence department’s highly unusual decision to brief journalists about the details and because it embodied the controversial notion that…

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhy Iran's election mattersIranians have voted in elections in an exercise widely expected to result in a more hardline parliament loyal to the country's supreme leader.It is the first such poll since the US renewed sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme, battering its…

Key point: The Mediterranean has long been a strategic area for military and commercial maritime traffic. Although NATO has a presence there, so too does Russia- and Moscow is ramping it up.Is the Mediterranean the new playground for the Russian Navy?Russia is expanding its naval presence in the Eastern Mediterranean because…

Key point: By bringing an “earth-penetrating” component, the B61-12 vastly increases the target scope or envelope of attack.Back in 2018, the Air Force’s B-2 Stealth bomber test-dropped an upgraded, multi-function B61-12 nuclear bomb that improves accuracy, integrates various attack options into a single bomb and changes the strategic landscape with regard…