Nukes

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Floating barges fitted with advanced nuclear reactors could begin powering developing nations by the mid-2020s, according to a Danish startup company. Seaborg Technologies believes it can make cheap nuclear electricity a…

LONDON: A US Navy nuclear submarine passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and entered the Arabian Gulf in the latest show of military strength from Washington in the region. The USS Georgia, which can carry dozens of land-attack cruise missiles, was accompanied by two guided-missile cruisers, the US…

MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian nuclear submarine on Saturday successfully test-fired four intercontinental ballistic missiles in a show of readiness of Moscow’s nuclear forces amid tension with the U.S.The Defense Ministry said that the Vladimir Monomakh submarine of the Pacific Fleet launched four Bulava missiles in quick succession from an…

The Russian armed forces have conducted an exercise of their nuclear capabilities including a series of ballistic and cruise missile launches overseen by President Vladimir Putin.A roughly two-and-a-half-minute video released Wednesday by the Russian Defense Ministry displayed air, land and sea assets of the country's nuclear triad. An accompanying statement…

MOSCOW — Russia's military conducted sweeping drills of its strategic nuclear forces that featured several practice missile launches on Wednesday.The Defense Ministry said in a statement that the maneuvers included the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Karelia nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea.As part of the…

On October 30, 1961, a specially equipped Soviet Tu-95 bomber flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a remote chain of islands in the Arctic Ocean that the U.S.S.R. frequently used as a site for nuclear tests, accompanied by a smaller plane equipped with a movie camera and instruments for monitoring air samples.…

Mourners sit next to the coffin of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh during the burial ceremony at the shrine of Imamzadeh Saleh in Tehran in November. Photo: West Asia News Agency via Reuters Military commander says the weapon ‘zoomed in’ on the victim using AI and was so accurate that…

Updated 3 weeks ago · Published on 4 Dec 2020 8:20AM · Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of having taken advantage of its international nuclear deal — which allowed economic sanctions to be lifted, before they were reinstated and toughened by US President Donald Trump — in…

Israel’s new Saar-6 corvette cruises near a natural gas production platform in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Haifa on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters German-made vessel, dubbed ‘Shield’, will help protect Mediterranean gas rigs amid soaring tensions over the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist The Saar-6 corvette and…

SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated PressDec. 1, 2020Updated: Dec. 1, 2020 1:40 p.m. 1of3FILE - In this March 6, 2014, file photo, empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M. The U.S. government's efforts to clean up decades worth of Cold War-era waste from…