Nukes

If you spend enough time reading about artificial intelligence, you’re bound to encounter one specific analogy: nuclear weapons. Like nukes, the argument goes, AI is a cutting-edge technology that emerged with unnerving rapidity and comes with serious and difficult to predict risks that society is ill-equipped to handle. The heads…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers to the Korean Peninsula on Friday in its latest show of force against North Korea, days after the North staged massive anti-U.S. rallies in its capital. The long-range B-52 bombers took part in joint aerial drills with other U.S. and…

FILE - In this photo provided by the South Korean Defense Ministry, U.S. B-52H bombers, center, and F-16 fighter jets and South Korean Air Force F-35A fighter jets, right bottom, fly over the Korean Peninsula during a joint air drill in South Korea on April 14, 2023. The United States…

A nuclear weapon is a device designed to release energy explosively due to nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, or a combination of the two processes. Fission weapons are commonly referred to as atomic bombs. Fusion weapons are also referred to as thermonuclear bombs or, more commonly, hydrogen bombs; they are usually…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky alleged Russia was weighing a “terrorist attack” at the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Europe’s largest, that would result in a radiation leak. In a video address, Zelensky said information from Ukraine’s security service would be shared with nations including the US and China and international organisations.…

Russia is readying its nuclear arsenal, as it reviews the state of the war and prepares for a drawn-out conflict. Meanwhile, lab-grown meat has now gotten approval in the United States. And the U.S. House of Representatives has voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). In this live Q&A with…

Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS MOSCOW, June 21 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia's new generation of Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missiles, which are capable of carrying 10 or more nuclear warheads, would soon be deployed for combat duty. In a speech to new graduates of military academies,…

Author of the article: The Associated Press Hyung-jin Kim And Kim Tong-hyung Published Jun 15, 2023  •  Last updated Jun 16, 2023  •  2 minute read SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States deployed a nuclear-powered submarine capable of carrying about 150 Tomahawk missiles to South Korea on Friday,…

UKRAINE’S energy sector is under attack. Kyiv power stations have been targeted by cruise missiles, the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam has been breached and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is under Russian occupation. © New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd...Read More

The best laid Belt and Road plans of Chinese President Xi Jinping are now going awry in Ukraine. Green energy and the technologies that were to fuel it, along with the ecological and global warming fixes that came with it, were once Beijing’s calling cards to the European Union and…