Nukes

Back to homepage / Asia / Pacific North Korea on Monday threatened to shoot down any US spy planes violating its airspace and condemned Washington’s plans to deploy a nuclear missile submarine near the Korean peninsula. Issued on: 10/07/2023 - 08:07 1 min A file photo of a US Air…

Dmitry Medvedev has again railed at Joe Biden, disparaging the U.S. president's age, actions in Afghanistan and accusing him of "provoking nuclear Armageddon" with his support for Ukraine. Medvedev was president of Russia between 2008 and 2012 during the Obama administration, when Biden served as U.S. vice president. Now in…

Russian missiles hit downtown Lviv early Thursday in what Ukrainian officials called the biggest attack to date on civilian areas in the major western city. Ukraine, meanwhile, carried out a strike in Russian-held territory, as both sides accused each other of plotting to sabotage the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Read…

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,…