Nukes

Radioactive waste from Cold War nuclear weapons tests could be leaking into the Pacific Ocean. According to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a concrete dome that was built on Runit Island in the late 1970s to contain waste from massive atom…

PIKETON, OHIODavid and Pam Mills have grown tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and okra on their secluded Appalachian property for about 18 years now. This will be the first year the retired couple doesnt. They just cant trust their soil anymore. Not with whats be…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) Irans foreign minister on Thursday said sanctions imposed by the Trump administration are unacceptable but that his country is committed to an international nuclear deal that has steadily unraveled amid rising tensions. On a …

Tensions between the United States and Iran have soared in recent weeks, with Washington dispatching warships and bombers to the Persian Gulf, and Tehran threatening to resume higher uranium enrichment. The tensions come a year after President Donald Trump wi…

More than that, he added, he expected the publication of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, to clear the way for Russian-American cooperation. Passions will subside, he said. Mr. Pompeo said he was seeking to fulfill President Trumps i…

(Bloomberg) -- The economic pain inflicted by President Donald Trumps sanctions on Iranian oil exports was widely blamed for prompting Tehrans threat last week to gradually roll back its compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal. But it was a U.S. decision in ea…

A new study has found that the nuclear tests performed during the Cold War during the 1950s and 1960s have left a very disturbing legacy on our planet — they have infiltrated the bodies of crustaceans in deep ocean trenches. The study, published in Geophysic…

Sixty years after it was scuttled off the coast of San Francisco, the bomb-scarred, radioactive hulk of the World War II-era aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22) has been located on the seafloor near the Farallon Islands. NOAA, working with private ind…

David Axe Security, So what happened? D-21: This Crazy Looking Mach 3 Drone Tried to Spy on China's Nuclear Bomb Tests The military and intelligence communities in the late 1960s hoped the D-21 would help the United States to spy on strategic targets mor…

President Donald Trump faces two high-stakes nuclear problems with two rogue regimes. And in the pursuit of elusive grand bargains, he has relied heavily on one tool: “maximum pressure.” But with neither North Korea nor Iran has the strategy yielded the ultim…