Nukes

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The following is an excerpt from The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb, by Sam Kean. The book is out today and can be purchased here. In 1944 the long-discussed plan to kidnap Werner Heise…

Enlarge/ ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - JULY 6, 2019: A Russian Navy officer by a grave during a funeral of the 14 Russian Navy officers killed by the July 1 fire on a deep-water research submersible in the Barents Sea, at the Serafimovskoye cemetery. 4 with 4 pos…

(Repeats with additional links to other stories, text unchanged) * Steps could unravel major achievements of 2015 pact * Iran calls UK seizure of ship "piracy, pure and simple" * IAEA still studying whether Iran has breached uranium limit By Babak Dehghan…

WASHINGTON (AP) With North Korea, President Donald Trump puts on the charm. But with Iran, he cranks up the pressure with economic sanctions and a stronger military presence in the Persian Gulf. He has warned its leaders they are "playing with fire." Nuclear…

If you havent seen HBOs Chernobyl mini-series yet, you absolutely should. While the TV show has its fair share of inaccuracies, it still superbly retells a tragic tale of what happens when political and ideological interests overshadow public safety. As s…

Minimizing the chance of war is nothing to scoff at. Shortly before becoming president, Donald Trump received a stark message from the man he would soon replace, Barack Obama: North Korea would be the biggest foreign policy challenge facing the new administra…

SEOUL, South Korea — South Koreans watched the historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday with a mixture of hope and skepticism, wondering whether it will be enough to relieve their biggest security concern —…

For President Donald Trump, its déjà vu all over again on Iran. Irans expected breach on Thursday of the uranium stockpile limits set by the 2015 nuclear deal is reviving a fierce debate within the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill about just how hard…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) As Iran prepares to surpass limits set by its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, each step it takes narrows the time the country's leaders would need to have enough highly enriched uranium for an atomic bomb if they chose to…