Nukes

North Korea has said it was willing to meet with the U.S. in late September to resume talks focused on its nuclear weapons program -- a move that President Donald Trump heralded as a "good thing" after weeks of quiet in the diplomatic process. Interested in …

(Adds details) JERUSALEM, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran had been developing nuclear weapons at a secret site near the city of Abadeh, but that Tehran destroyed the facility after learning it had been ex…

Democratic presidential candidates should seek a better Iran nuclear deal. That requires continuing sanctions and rejecting the 2015 agreement. Iranian energy official Behrouz Kamalvandi says "there's not much time left" to save the nuclear agreement Iran en…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption A number of people are being evacuated from Great Abaco to the capital, Nassau Head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has compared the damage from Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas to that of a nuclear…

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Saturday said it now uses arrays of advanced centrifuges prohibited by its 2015 nuclear deal and can enrich uranium “much more beyond” current levels to weapons-grade material, taking a third step away from the accord while warning Euro…

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it was now capable of raising uranium enrichment past the 20% level and had launched advanced centrifuge machines in further breaches of commitments to limit its nuclear activity under a 2015 deal with…

(Bloomberg) — Its streets helped form the backdrop for this year’s hit TV show Chernobyl, which depicted a deadly explosion at the Soviet-era nuclear plant in 1986. Now, the Baltic city of Vilnius is preparing for its own potential real-life atomic catastroph…

A US missile test. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Hypersonic missiles, stealthy cruise missiles, and weaponized artificial intelligence have so reduced the amount of time that decision makers in the United States would theoretically have to respo…

Last week Trump infamously suggested nuking hurricanes. Loopy, of course -- but it also put me in mind of a similarly bananas idea from 1965: Using nukes to dig ditches and excavate earth. As Matt Novak notes in the Paleofuture vertical at Gizmodo, Athelstan…

By Tuqa Khalid DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will never hold bilateral talks with the United States but if it lifts all the sanctions it reimposed on Iran it can join multilateral talks between Iran and other parties to a 2015 nuclear deal, President Hassan Rouhani…