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Israel has targeted a number of positions in southern Syria after a missile landed in the direction of a secretive nuclear facility. "A short while ago, surface-to-air missile fire was identified from Syria, which landed in the Negev area," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement sent to Newsweek…

Home News This image shows SN2014J, one of the closest type Ia supernovas in recent decades. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, A. Goobar (Stockholm University), and the Hubble Heritage Team) When a white dwarf star explodes as a supernova, it may detonate like a nuclear weapon on Earth, a new study…

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei speaks during a televised address in Tehran, Iran on March 21, 2021. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images As Iran boosts uranium enrichment to 60%, a short jump to military grade at 90%, world powers are trying to coax the Islamic Republic…

Published April 15, 2021 12:18am PARIS — The European countries party to the Iran nuclear deal told Tehran on Wednesday its decision to enrich uranium at 60% purity, bringing the fissile material closer to bomb-grade, was contrary to efforts to revive the 2015 accord. But in an apparent signal to…

Image for representation. The report suggests that China has been building a large and increasingly capable nuclear missile force that is more survivable, more diverse, and on higher alert than in the pastA United States intelligence report has said that despite some force pullback from the Line of Actual Control,…

Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin before launch April 12, 1961. Credit: Roscosmos Sixty years ago Monday, a 27-year-old Russian test pilot named Yuri Gagarin strapped into a Vostok capsule in Central Asia and rode into orbit atop a launcher derived from a Soviet nuclear missile, becoming the first human to travel into…

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For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Friday, March 26, 2021, 8:09 Seoul, Mar 26: North Korea on Friday confirmed it had tested a new guided missile as President Joe Biden warned of consequences if Pyongyang escalates tensions amid stalled nuclear negotiations. The…

North Korea yesterday test-fired its first ballistic missiles since US President Joe Biden took office, as it expands its military capabilities and increases pressure on Washington while nuclear negotiations remain stalled. apanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said North Korea’s resumption of ballistic testing threatens “peace and safety in Japan and the…

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — In the desert northeast of Las Vegas, residents living along the Nevada-Arizona border would gather on their front porches for bomb parties or ride horses into the fields to watch as the U.S. government conducted atomic tests during a Cold War-era race to build up the…