Nukes

Key point: The Soviet Union was more worried about international appearances than the lives of its citizens. If you're a sailor on a Russian submarine that sinks in the middle of the ocean, don't expect much sympathy from the Kremlin. Judging by the reactio…

Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet military officer, poses at his home in 2015 near Moscow. In 1983, he was on duty when the Soviet Union's early warning satellite indicated the U.S. had fired nuclear weapons at his country. He suspected, correctly, it was a f…

Media captionWatch as key Saudi oil facility is engulfed in flames Iran is ready to destroy any country that launches an attack on its territory, a senior military official says. The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned the US and its allies to "b…

(Adds Iran denies "successful" cyber-attack on oil sites) DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iran will pursue any aggressor, even it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, after attacks on S…

Iran’s foreign minister warned Thursday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up tensions across the Persian Gulf. The comments by Mohammad Javad Zarif repr…

An influx of capitalist culture and a swelling desire for material goods could one day spell the end for North Koreas Kim dynasty and hasten the pariah states re-entry into the international community. Thats according to a high-ranking defector who spoke rece…

An influx of capitalist culture and a swelling desire for material goods could one day spell the end for North Korea’s Kim dynasty and hasten the pariah state’s re-entry into the international community. That’s according to a high-ranking defector who spoke r…

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited U.S. President Donald Trump to visit Pyongyang in a letter sent in August, a South Korean newspaper reported on Monday, citing diplomatic sources. The letter, the second Trump received from Kim last …

Key Point: The concern is that once Russia and China have perfected their own hypersonic capabilities the technology will begin spreading, as it often has historically with everything from missiles to nuclear weapons technology. It is extremely likely that I…

It might be a joke now, but the development of these capabilities could pose a real danger in the future. On August 29th, Iran attempted to put its newest commercial satellite, the Nahid-1, into orbit from a test range in the countrys north. The endeavor end…