Nukes

The AIRS (Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere) is the most accurate inertial navigation (INS) system ever developed, and perhaps marks the end of a long process of continuous refinement of INS technology. This immensely complex and expensive INS unit has "thi…

In response to the September 14 attack on Saudi oil facilities, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced plans to deploy additional personnel and air and missile defense assets to the Middle East including one Patriot battery, four Sentinel radars, and 200 s…

Fact: Clearly, the program itself would not have deterred the West; it could not have produced a viable weapon by 2011. However, knowledge of an existing nuclear program might have reduced Assads standing in the West even further, potentially making intervent…

* North Korean, U.S. negotiators met near Stockholm * North Korean negotiator puts blame on U.S. (Adds reaction from South Korea's presidential office) By Johan Ahlander and Philip O'Connor STOCKHOLM, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Talks are talking place on the island of Lidingo, northeast of Stockholm US and North Korean officials have arrived in Sweden to restart nuclear talks in the hope of breaking a stalemate between the two countries. The l…

North Korea warned the world on Friday that its latest missile test was a powerful blow to its enemies, calling the weapon a time bomb and the "most fearful dagger. Wednesdays missile test of the Pukguksong-3 rocket, the 11th test North Korea has conducted …

Enlarge/ Simulated temperature changes 2 years after a hypothetical nuclear war between India and Pakistan. 0 with 0 posters participating There are few things humans have committed to as whole-heartedly as the art of killing. The culmination of this effort…

SEOUL (Reuters) - As negotiators for the United States and North Korea resume talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear program this weekend, analysts say that the leaders of both countries face increased incentives to strike a deal, but that it is far from clear they w…

Adam Mount is a senior fellow and director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists. He is the co-director of the FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy, a group of fourteen experts that proposed a consensus strateg…

Pakistan and India have fought three wars over Kashmir, a disputed territory to which both nations lay claim. Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, recently suggested the countries could be headed toward another. "There is a potential that two nuclear-armed…