Nukes

In BriefTrial begins today over alleged terror plot that ‘could have triggered World War Three’Five MPs cheated death after an Iranian diplomat smuggled a bomb onto a commercial flight for a planned attack in Paris, according to court documents.The agent had intended to use the “Mother of Satan” explosive device…

The emergency powers that Chief Executive Carrie Lam invoked last year to ban face masks at protests are a “missile launcher” which give the government “unrestricted nuclear power” to do whatever it wants, the Court of Final Appeal was told on Tuesday. This was the argument put forward by Senior…

The US Defense Department's special-operations forces are well known for their accomplishments on battlefields overseas. But to meet security needs at home, numerous US government agencies and departments have set up specially trained units that have some unique missions. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The Defense Department isn't…

All North Korea storiesHow new tech raises the risk of nuclear warIllustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some experts believe the risk of the use of a nuclear weapon is as high now as it has been since the Cuban missile crisis.The big picture: Nuclear war remains the…

Nobody was expecting Donald Trump to take his election loss gracefully, but scoping out Iranian nuclear facilities for military action is probably a more extreme reaction than most of us anticipated.Citing four current and former US officials, The New York Times (NYT) reports that the outgoing president last week asked several top…

US President Donald Trump asked for options on attacking Iranian nuclear sites last week, according to an official, before ultimately deciding against it. Mr Trump, who has yet refused to concede that he lost the presidential election, apparently made the request during an Oval Office meeting last week, which included…

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida’s second-highest leader, accused of being one of the masterminds of the deadly 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, was killed in Iran three months ago, intelligence officials have confirmed.Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was gunned down on the…

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The crew of the Bristol Leader was laying out its long cod-catching line well within U.S. fishing territory in the Bering Sea when a voice crackled over the VHF radio and began issuing commands: The ship was in danger, it said, and needed to move.The warnings, coming…

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I never expected how researching the US government’s doomsday plans would thoroughly prepare me for the threat of Donald Trump. I’d spent the five years before Trump’s election researching and writing what I saw as a fun—even lighthearted—history of the Cold War and the nation’s secret plans for Armageddon. Trump’s…