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Back to homepage / Asia / Pacific Japan said Friday that North Korea posed a more serious threat to its national security than "ever before", as nuclear-armed Pyongyang rattles its neighbours with repeated missile tests and belligerent rhetoric. Issued on: 28/07/2023 - 04:39 2 min A view of tanks displayed…

Veterans exposed to the effects of nuclear bombs during UK's testing in the 1960s will receive a medal to wear on Remembrance SundayBetween 1,500 and 2,000 eligible people are thought to be alive todayBy James Callery Published: 00:05 BST, 28 July 2023 | Updated: 00:08 BST, 28 July 2023 Veterans…

The delayed and long-awaited nuclear test medal is finally in production, 70 years after Britain's first atomic bomb The final design for the nuclear veterans' medal, which is now in productionThis is the medal more than 1,000 veterans hope they will finally be able to wear on Remembrance Sunday. After…

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie, was a hematology technician at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan Project scientists, including the renowned physicist Enrico Fermi. Years after the war, she returned to Los Alamos National…

Plutonium-239 rained down from the atmosphere and settled in sediments across the planet. (Image credit: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)Nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s and early 1960s left the first obvious and indelible marks of "overwhelming" human activity on Earth, and these events may signal the beginning of a new geological…

One windy night in March 2022, in the desert outside Belen, New Mexico, Cillian Murphy was waiting to climb a 100-foot steel tower, a copy of the one that held the first nuclear bomb ever detonated in 1945. The conditions were right for summoning the emotion of the historic scene…

Uranium processing in the St. Louis area played a pivotal role in developing the nuclear weapons that helped bring an end to World War II and provided a key defense during the Cold War. But the cost to the region has been staggering. Eight decades after Mallinckrodt Chemical Works first…

WASHINGTON: A US intelligence assessment says Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons at the moment but has ramped up activities that could help it develop them. The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released Monday says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an…

Author of the article: Associated Press Matthew Lee Published Jul 10, 2023  •  2 minute read Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, visits an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, at his office compound in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 11, 2023. A U.S. intelligence assessment says Iran is not pursuing…

Assessment from Office of Director of National Intelligence released Monday says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an atomic bomb since 2020 but has stopped short of that so far The findings corresponded with previous U.S. assessments about Iran's nuclear program, although many in Congress and elsewhere…