Nukes

Russia-China joint efforts to build high-tech and strategic items despite Moscow being a supplier of natural resources and some defence equipment have not yet yielded desired results unlike Russia-India defence partnership. This was argued at a recent paper published by the Moscow Center of Carnegie, a leading global think-tank. The…

Iran's defense minister has vowed to continue his country's ballistic missile program; a key grievance of the U.S. and its allies that President Joe Biden has said will be in his sights during future negotiations with Tehran. Brigadier General Amir Hatami said Thursday that Iran will continue striving for "high…

In August 2017, North Korea and Kim Jong Un brought the world to the brink of nuclear war when Kim threatened to attack the U.S. territory of Guam. At the time, former President Donald Trump answered the North Korean leader by saying he'd respond with "fire and fury like the…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration has reached out to North Korea to launch a dialogue on Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs but has yet to receive a response, the White House said Monday. “Our goal is to reduce the risk of escalation. But to date, we have not received any response,” White…

The senior Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, offered few details on the diplomatic push The Biden administration has so far been cautious in publicly describing its approach to North Korea Topic |   North Korea E3B1C256-BFCB-4CEF-88A6-1DCCD7666635 Published: 7:58am, 14 Mar, 2021 Updated: 7:58am, 14 Mar, 2021 Read More

1of29A worker for Tokyo Electric Power Co. stands by a gate at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan, Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021.Hiro Komae/APShow MoreShow Less2of29This photo shows tanks (in gray, beige and blue) of storing water that was treated but still radioactive after…

And unsurprisingly, it broke the server. Call of Duty: Warzone has been teasing a nuclear explosion for quite a while now, and although rumours are once again swirling that the destruction of Verdansk is imminent, it seems some players decided to take things into their own hands: by making their very…

“Diplomacy is back!” President Joe Biden declared at the Munich Security Conference last week. But so is bombing Syria, apparently. Biden has only been president a bit more than a month, but he has already ordered his first bombing campaign. (It took Trump four months to do the same.) The…

“Biden deprioritizes the Middle East,” a Politico headline declared. The president, wrote Natasha Bertrand and Lara Seligman, “is tired of dealing with the Middle East—and, barely a month into his tenure, the region has noticed.” That was four days ago. On Thursday, in a rite of passage for any American…

In The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, a classic 1943 film that traces, in vaguely allegorical fashion, half a century’s evolution in England’s national character, the actress Deborah Kerr plays a series of roles that represent changing incarnations of the ideal British woman. Were a similar technicolor romance to…