Nukes

Main Blog > "I Once Convinced a Woman in College Red Dawn Was a True Story." The most Reagan Era movie of the Reagan Era was, I think, Red Dawn. This Cold War film depicted a sudden invasion of the United States by communist nations led by the Soviet Union.…

Key point: Washington and Moscow are building new missiles once banned under the INF Treaty. How much might this destabilize the world? The U.S. military on Aug. 18, 2019 successfully tested a ground-launched, intermediate-range, nuclear-capable cruise missile. It’s exactly the kind of kind of missile that the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces…

Longtime followers of work are accustomed to say asking “Where does he get such wonderful toys?”. This time around he’s laid bare the guidance computer from a Titan missile. To be specific, this is the computer that would have been found in the Titan II, an intercontinental ballistic missile that…

North Korea has launched what are presumed to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military.The projectiles were fired early on Saturday morning.South Korean said they were fired from North Pyongan province into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea. The statement…

North Korea on Saturday fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast, Seoul’s military said. The projectiles were fired from North Pyongan province into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in…

(Recasts, adds description of KCNA photos) By Joyce Lee SEOUL, March 21 (Reuters) - North Korea fired two projectiles that appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea's military said on Saturday, after what analysts said was a show…

Washington (AFP) - The United States announced Friday it has successfully tested an unarmed prototype of a hypersonic missile, a nuclear-capable weapon that could accelerate the arms race between superpowers.The Pentagon said a test glide vehicle flew at hypersonic speeds -- more than five times the speed of sound, or…

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers remarks on the current state of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) during a news conference at the State Department in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Tom BrennerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. citizen Michael White who has been detained in Iran since 2018 has…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed fresh sanctions on Iran on Tuesday, keeping up its economic pressure campaign even as it offered to help Tehran cope with the coronavirus pandemic and called on the Islamic Republic to release detained Americans. Iran is considering freeing some U.S. citizens, Secretary of…

Key point: Not much is known about early Israeli weapons, particularly their yield and the size of the stockpile. In a private email leaked to the public in September of 2016, former secretary of state and retired U.S. Army general Colin Powell alluded to Israel having an arsenal of “200 nuclear weapons.” While…