Nuclear Weapons

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…

Europe00:01 GMT 11.04.2020(updated 00:43 GMT 11.04.2020) Get short URLIn 2010, the Bundestag voted to remove US nuclear bombs from Germany. In 2017, the German government's deputy spokeswoman, Ulrike Demmer, advocated nuclear weapons on the country's territory, saying that there "remains a need for nuclear deterrence".The US secretly modernized nuclear weapons…

Of all the countries in the world, just nine are believed to have developed nuclear weapons. One member of this exclusive club is Pakistan, a country that occupies a unique strategic position on the Indian subcontinent. An ally of the United States and China and archenemy of India, Pakistan has…

Unlike India, Pakistan lacks a sea-based nuclear delivery platform and thus does not have a three-pronged nuclear triad. Worst still for Islamabad, Pakistan is hindered by a lack of cash, and there are questions about how secure the nuclear missiles in Pakistan are from falling into non-state actor’s hands.  First-Use…

Saudi Arabia has nearly completed construction of its first nuclear reactor, sparking fears about the country’s quest for nuclear power.New satellite images, first published by Bloomberg, show construction on the building site has made significant process over the past three months.The three images below show the rapid developments on the…

Bombastic TV host Piers Morgan’s probing of Minister Michael Gove about who’s in control of the UK’s nuclear weapons while the PM is being treated for Covid-19 has divided Twitter. Some social media users praised the interview, while others branded the question about the country’s nuclear arsenal as “stupid.”Morgan appeared…

Scientists have accurately estimated the age of whale sharks—the biggest fish in the sea—using clues from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests. It’s the first time researchers have verified the age of this majestic species, the largest fish in the sea. One whale shark in the study was an estimated 50…