Nukes

A Standard Missile-3 is fired from a Vertical Launching System on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam as part of a Missile Defense Agency flight experiment December 10, 2024. Credit: DoD A new shock-and-awe movie might sharpen public concern about American vulnerability to nuclear attack and defense against it. The fictional ”House…

Jerusalem Post / Middle East / Iran News Israel has limited time to act against Iranian regime, senior official warns A senior Israeli official suggests the need to act before Trump's presidency concludes, as tensions rise over Iran's nuclear and missile programs. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a…

For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires nuclear missiles at America. WOPR from WarGames nearly starts a nuclear war because of a miscommunication.…

An unarmed Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launches during an operational test at 1:35 a.m. Pacific Time (0635 GMT) on Nov. 5, 2025 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. (Image credit: U.S. Space Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Draeke Layman) The U.S. military test launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile…

Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a speech during an awards ceremony marking the National Unity Day at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Tuesday. Maxim Shipenkov/AFP/Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin has given state awards to the developers of the Burevestnik cruise missile and the Poseidon underwater torpedo, the latest signal…

Protestors stand under hanging figures depicting the US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a rally outside the former US embassy in Tehran as Iranians mark the 46th anniversary of the start of the Iran hostage crisis Thousands of Iranians marked the 1979 storming of the…

What is Russia's doomsday missile and Khabarovsk? Russia has launched the nuclear-powered submarine Khabarovsk, built to carry the Poseidon nuclear drone, also known as the doomsday missile. The launch took place at Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk, marking a major step in Russia’s underwater defence program. The Russian Defence Ministry, President…

World For more than 30 years, major nuclear powers have refrained from testing nuclear bombs. But that streak may soon be over as Russia and the U.S. conduct missile tests and threaten to resume explosions of the most powerful weapons ever devised. Almost all countries stopped exploding nuclear bombs in…

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Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations The first USSR nuclear test "Joe 1" at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, 29 August 1949. Credit: CTBTO UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 2025 (IPS) - The lingering after-effects of nuclear tests by the…