Nukes

Last month I spoke to a youth group whose members are advocating for a treaty to forever end nuclear weapons testing. Our meeting was timely, before the July 16 anniversary of the first atomic bomb test at the end of World War II. Code-named Trinity, the A-bomb test by the…

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Hispanics and Mescalero Apache tribal members in New Mexico this month are marking the anniversary of the 1945 Trinity Test — an experiment resulting in health problems for generations living near the site of the world's first atomic bomb explosion. Why it matters: Descendants of those families use the July…

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Christian Le Miere Christian Le Miere is a foreign policy adviser. He is the founder of Arcipel, a strategic consultancy, and has worked as a senior adviser to an Abu Dhabi entity. He was formerly a senior fellow at the IISS, a London-based think tank, and the editor of various…

China's new missile silos found deep in the desert. Photo / Supplied Satellites have spotted China building more than 100 new nuclear missile silos deep in the desert – and it changes the calculations of Mutually Assured Destruction. Researchers from the US Middlebury Institute of International Studies have pinpointed construction…

China has begun construction of over 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles in a desert near the country's northwestern city of Yumen, signalling a major expansion of its nuclear capabilities, a leading American daily has reported citing satellite imagery. The silo construction project could provide China — which celebrated…

The Raytheon stand is seen at the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport near Paris, France June 21, 2019. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) - Raytheon Technologies Corp (RTX.N) has been awarded an about $2 billion contract by the U.S. Air Force to develop and make…

Today is International Asteroid Day—a United Nations (UN)-sanctioned event observed annually on June 30 that aims to raise awareness about the risks of asteroid impacts. Large near-Earth objects (NEOs)—asteroids or comets that pass close to our orbit—represent "potentially catastrophic" threats to our planet, according to the UN. With this in…

Some major events have happened in the last week of the nuclear talks’ standoff between Iran, the US and other world powers, which give some additional insights into what to expect next. Following a background briefing to the media by a senior US State Department official, here are six interim conclusions:…