Nukes

Abdul Qadeer Khan, who made international headlines in 2004 after publicly confessing his role in global nuclear proliferation, has petitioned Pakistan's top court to say he is being "kept prisoner" by government agencies and not allowed to plead his case for freedom of movement. Khan, widely described as the architect…

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Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War may have changed rainfall patterns thousands of miles from the detonation sites, new research has revealed. Scientists at the University of Reading have researched how the electric charge released by radiation from the test detonations, carried out predominantly by the US and Soviet…

Sinan Saglam / EyeEmGetty Images Scientists developed a new camera that can take a whopping 70 trillion frames per second. One of the inventors calls the new process compressed ultrafast spectral photography, or CUSP.The study appears in the April 29 edition of Nature Communications.For as much as cameras allow us…

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran's state media reported on Monday, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington.The statement significantly raised the death toll in…

Associated Press Published 6:53 AM EDT May 11, 2020TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian missile fired during a training exercise in the Gulf of Oman struck a support vessel near its target, killing 19 Iranian sailors and wounding 15, Iran’s state media reported on Monday, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and…

DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - One Iranian warship accidentally struck another with a missile during an exercise, killing 19 sailors and wounding 15 others, Iran’s navy said on Monday. The incident took place during training in the Gulf of Oman, a sensitive waterway that connects to the Strait of Hormuz…

Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian warship was accidentally hit by a missile during exercises in the Gulf of Oman, killing at least one, state television said Monday, amid tensions with the US in the waterway.The friendly fire incident involving the Konarak vessel occurred on Sunday afternoon near Bandar-e Jask, off…

China urged to expand nuclear arsenal to deter US warmongers By Liu Xuanzun Source:Global Times Published: 2020/5/8 16:23:40 Nuke-equipped bomber and missile development important to safeguard national security: experts China reveals its most advanced nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile, the DF-41, at the National Day parade in Beijing on October 1,…

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