Nukes

JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/Stuff New Zealand joined more than 50 other nations vowing to Ban the Bomb on Friday. New Zealand has joined more than 50 other nations in a pledge to ban the nuclear bomb. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the Nuclear Ban Treaty, was…

by Sandra Erwin — January 20, 2021 National Guard soldiers and airmen supported the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States Jan. 20, 2021. Credit: National Guard Bureau David Zikusoka will serve as special assistant at the office of the assistant secretary of defense for…

Nuclear-armed North Korea has unveiled a new submarine-launched ballistic missile at a military parade in Pyongyang, state media showed, in a calculated show of strength days before Joe Biden's inauguration as US president. The display came after the five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party, where leader Kim Jong Un…

Updated 3 weeks ago · Published on 15 Jan 2021 7:40AM · North Korea’s new intercontinental ballistic missile is displayed during a military parade at the Kim Il-sung Square during celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea last October. – EPA pic, January…

KurzgesagtIf you’re the type who’s always scouring the internet looking for something interesting to read, you were also probably the type of kid who was always pestering your parents and teachers with enormous questions like “Is reality real?” or “What if we detonated all nuclear bombs at once?” Lucky for…

It looks like the final chapter of Call of Duty Modern Warfare's Warzone storyline, The War Room, has been released, and with it, a new cutscene detailing the final outcome of the game's nuclear plotline. It's finally time to see how this saga ends; will the operators succeed, or will…

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…