Nukes

A woman watches a news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and reporting that North Korea firing unidentified projectiles last month. Lee Jin-man/AP In what could be a reference to a new missile test, North Korea is threatening to give the U.S. …

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption The USS Blue Ridge sailed into Hong Kong in April China has suspended visits by US Navy ships and aircraft to Hong Kong after Washington passed legislation last week backing pro-democracy protesters. Beijing also u…

We cannot allow anyone to evade sanctions, because the consequences of North Korea obtaining funding, technology, and information to further its desire to build nuclear weapons put the world at risk, said William F. Sweeney Jr., an assistant director-in-charg…

Indias first missile tracking ship being built at Hindustan Shipyard Limited is in advanced stage of construction. It is expected to be New Year gift to the Indian Navy, if the indications available at the HSL, a Ministry of Defence enterprise, hold water. T…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption A state media image said to show Kim Jong-un inspecting the testing of a "super-large multiple-rocker launcher" North Korea has branded Japan's PM Shinzo Abe an "imbecile" and "political dwarf", and accused him of mislabelli…

The U.S. Air Forces nuclear command says its about to undergo a major reorganization as it prepares to field new bombs, missiles, bombers and rockets. Air Force Global Strike Command stood up in 2009 as the successor to Strategic Air Command, which maintaine…

SEOUL, Nov 27 (Reuters) - South Korea's military fired warning shots towards a North Korean merchant boat with engine trouble that violated their sea border on Wednesday, South Korean officials said. The vessel was detected crossing the inter-Korean maritime…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday it had shown the country’s new Avangard nuclear missile system to U.S. inspectors for the first time, a move Moscow said showed a key arms control treaty was still effective. Russia is due to d…

Survivors of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima told Pope Francis on Sunday of the "scene of hell" after the bombing, as the pontiff hit out against the use of the weapons. The pope began his four-day trip to Japan with stops in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where he…

Pope Francis calls for nuclear disarmament as he lands in Japan