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Metro
April 28, 2018
The two Koreas have agreed to rid their peninsula of nuclear weapons in historic talks between the two leaders. Share this article with Facebook Share this article with Twitter Share this article with Google Plus Share this article through email Share this article with Whatsapp Share this article through ...
MarketWatch
April 28, 2018
The leaders of North and South Korea agreed to work toward a peace agreement to formally end the Korean War 68 years after it began, but Friday's historic talks avoided specifics about Pyongyang's nuclear weapons ahead of its planned summit with President Donald Trump. After an 8.5-hour meeting in ...
RealClearPolitics
April 28, 2018
POTUS on Iran: "They're not going to be doing nuclear weapons. You can bank on it." pic.twitter.com/WP9861CCZF. — Fox News (@FoxNews) April 27, 2018. President Trump on Iran: "They're not going to be doing nuclear weapons. You can bank on it." Related Topics: Donald Trump, Trump ...
Washington Examiner
April 28, 2018
The Trump administration's plan to add two new varieties of nuclear weapons into the U.S. arsenal will face one of its first legislative tests this month. The House Armed Services Committee is teeing up a debate on the proposed sea-based cruise missiles and lower-yield ballistic missiles launched from ...
13WHAM-TV
April 28, 2018
Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) - The leaders of both North and South Korea are vowing to eliminate nuclear weapons at their peninsula. The announcement was made at a summit Friday morning near the border of the two countries. One North Korean refugee, however believes the news is nothing more than a political ploy.
PBS NewsHour
April 28, 2018
In our news wrap Friday, President Trump leveled a new warning at Iran, as he weighs whether to withdraw from the nuclear agreement next month. Also, the leaders of China and India began their own two-day summit, seeking to ease strained ties.
WFTV Orlando
April 27, 2018
GOYANG, South Korea - GOYANG, South Korea (AP) - Korean leaders repeat past vow to rid Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons but fail to provide any specific measures. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Popular Mechanics
April 3, 2018
That's why nuclear weapons often show up in cinema as the ultimate threat to our heroes—and humanity. You wouldn't expect the movies to depict nuclear weapons with perfect realism, but some blockbusters do a much better job than others. Here's a guide that separates the good from the useless when it ...
The Verge
April 3, 2018
That's according to a new online interactive simulator that lets you drop a virtual nuke anywhere in the world. Created by a Wisconsin-based educational nonprofit called the Outrider Foundation, the blast simulator is an effort to teach the public about the dangers of nuclear weapons. It's surprisingly beautiful ...
Physics Today
April 3, 2018
E. Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin Books (2013), p. 457. Google Scholar; 4. See, for example, “The 3 A.M. Phone Call: False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks During 1979–80 Led to Alert Actions for U.S. Strategic Forces,” National Security ...
Foreign Affairs
April 2, 2018
When it comes to North Korea, U.S. President Donald Trump's policies have been whiplash inducing. On February 23, he appeared to be gearing up for a conflict when he said that if sanctions against Pyongyang didn't work, Washington would have to move to “phase two,” which could be “very, very ...
Japan Today
April 2, 2018
The executive director of a museum in the U.S. town of Los Alamos said Friday that it will not host a traveling exhibition focused on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings as planned due to concerns over the exhibitors' position on the abolition of nuclear weapons. The exhibition, organized by the ...
The Guardian
April 1, 2018
The UK government should take a lead, in accordance with its professed commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons, achieved by multilateral negotiations, by attending this conference and urging the other nuclear weapon powers to do likewise. A modest, but well-worthwhile aim, as a first step, would ...
Media Matters for America
March 31, 2018
On Fox & Friends, Diamond and Silk blame Uranium One for Russia's nuclear weapons program ... DIAMOND: How she sold 20 percent of the uranium to Russia and now Russia have nuclear weapons. And you know that uranium is bomb-making material. SILK: That's right. Previously: Fox News' Shepard ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 31, 2018
As of 2017, the U.S. had 3,822 nuclear weapons, according to data just declassified by the Department of Energy. That's down from 4,018 in 2016. That number does not include weapons that have been retired but have yet to be dismantled by the Department of Energy. The figures show just how deep ...
Davis Enterprise
March 30, 2018
Physicists from UC Davis are taking a leading role in a new joint program between the United States and United Kingdom developing tools to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons. The first project of the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security ...
Japan Today
March 30, 2018
Pyongyang has released commemorative stamps and built monuments in honour of its ballistic missile tests, while nuclear and rocket scientists have been named national heroes. For Kim Jong Un, fully giving up nuclear weapons would mean a dramatic reversal for an authoritarian leader who has not only ...
Reuters TV
March 29, 2018
... > It's where nuclear scientists are national heroes. Where ice monuments are built in honor of missile tests and the nuclear warhead is a treasured sword of justice. North Korea's nuclear propoganda has been built over decades by a dynasty who's wielded the nuclear narrative as a key part of regime ...
The Guardian
March 29, 2018
A single megaton nuclear weapon dropped on the House of Commons would kill more than a million people outright. Nearly 2.5 million ... The US and Russia combined have around 2,000 nuclear weapons on a hair trigger, meaning they could be launched in minutes, leaving my scenarios just hours away.
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 29, 2018
The region and the world are undoubtedly safer because of the decisions made in the 1990s to relinquish South Africa's nuclear program. Moreover, the dismantling of the relatively small program provided a template for how other nuclear powers could think about eliminating their own programs. However ...
UC Davis
March 28, 2018
Physicists from the University of California, Davis, are taking a leading role in a new joint program between the United States and United Kingdom developing tools to help prevent proliferation of nuclear weapons. The first project of the Advanced Instrumentation Testbed, sponsored by the U.S. Department ...
Sky News
March 19, 2018
North Korean rockets fitted with nuclear weapons 'can reach central Europe'. The deputy director of Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND says he is 'certain' about Kim Jong Un's military capability. 21:40, UK, Sunday 18 March 2018. Kim Jong Un has pushed ahead with North Korea's nuclear weapons ...
The Australian
March 19, 2018
Mr Stoltenberg said Russia was gradually giving more weight to nuclear weapons in its doctrines, exercises and military capabilities. The NATO secretary-general added that so-called hybrid warfare, such as the use of non-uniformed troops, could be added to the agenda of the next NATO-Russia Council, ...
The Hill
March 19, 2018
“Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons and the technology to make them is strongly in the U.S. national interest, especially when talking about the Middle East, which is plagued by various security competitions,” Reif said, adding that three of the last four 123 agreements contained legally or politically ...
Newsweek
March 19, 2018
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's commitment to giving up his country's nuclear weapons is unprecedented, according to South Korean foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha. After months of escalating tensions and rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea, a South Korean delegation that visited ...
swissinfo.ch
March 19, 2018
We have approved the result of the negotiations on July 7 because Switzerland shares the desire for a world without nuclear weapons and supports the mention in the treaty of the catastrophic humanitarian impact of the use of a nuclear weapon.” However, the government does not hide a certain scepticism ...
The Mainichi
March 18, 2018
Motives for developing and possessing nuclear weapons include protecting one's country by preventing an enemy from attacking it. It would be difficult for a country to abandon its nuclear weapons if it considers there is an external threat that cannot be countered without such weapons. Historically, not ...
The Straits Times
March 18, 2018
SYDNEY (REUTERS) - The Association of South-east Asian Nations and Australia said on Sunday (March 18) that they held "grave concerns" about escalating tensions caused by North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes. "We strongly urge the DPRK to immediately and fully comply with its ...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 17, 2018
Nearly 85 percent of these were conducted by the United States and the Soviet Union, but the three other recognized nuclear powers (the United Kingdom, France and China) have also conducted a significant amount of their own. Israel has never officially tested a nuclear weapon, although there is strong ...
CNN
March 16, 2018
The international community has long been concerned that Iran's development of nuclear weapons could spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, a key factor in the decision to reach a diplomatic settlement with Tehran over its nuclear program in 2015. The Crown Prince also doubled down on his ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
March 15, 2018
Such exchanges could evolve into a set of best practices for possessors of nuclear weapons. Finally, the five nuclear weapon states could commit to deepened dialogue on nuclear issues around which they have significant expertise—in particular, nuclear terrorism, treaty verification, and the role they ...
Wausau Daily Herald
March 15, 2018
The Doomsday Clock has recently been moved 30 seconds closer to midnight. It is now only two minutes before the clock strikes 12 because of the twin dangers of climate change and the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons. We are “closer to catastrophe,” said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the ...
Allentown Morning Call
March 15, 2018
My expectations for the Trump-Kim meeting are very low. Kim Jong Un has already achieved what he set out to do. The meeting validates this tyrant as an equal. This has been North Korea's goal for 20 years. The reward of a face-to-face meeting should have only come after high-level negotiations.
i24NEWS
March 15, 2018
Saudi Arabia's crown prince says his country will develop a nuclear bomb if Iran builds nuclear weapons. Mohammed Bin Salman made that startling statement during @NorahODonnell's recent visit to Saudi Arabia for this Sunday's @60Minutes https://t.co/iTga0YCnPm pic.twitter.com/iKRXt6pqYZ.
The Daily Herald
March 15, 2018
Our war planners have introduced a mindset and strategy of utilizing first-strike nuclear weapons for non-nuclear confrontations such as a severe cyber-attack. Americans need to come to terms and face head on the realities of both militarism — the “military industrial complex” that Ike warned us about ...
Newsweek
March 15, 2018
In a March 1 address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin evoked Soviet-era exaggeration. He proclaimed barely feasible economic and social goals and boasted of nuclear arms that are unlikely to change the strategic balance. Putin likely sought for his remarks to be viewed as a campaign ...
Boston Review
March 14, 2018
What legal or philosophical principle differentiates the moral wrong that would be attributed to a terrorist, non-state actor, or hacker who delivered a nuclear weapon from the presidential launch of a nuclear weapon? A conference held at Harvard University in November 2017 brought together international ...
Markets Insider
March 13, 2018
Elon Musk told a packed theater at SXSW, "Mark my words: AI is far more dangerous than nukes." Chris Pizzello / AP. Elon Musk thinks AI is more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Speaking at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Musk said that the rate of improvement in artificial intelligence "scares the ...
Pravda
March 7, 2018
I want to tell you, so that everyone here in the world knows, that our plans - I hope, it will never be - technical plans to apply nuclear weapons are about the so-called retaliatory, counter-impact strike," Putin said, RIA Novosti reports. The Russian president said that the decision on the use of such weapons ...
ABC 57 News
March 7, 2018
(CNN) -- North Korea is willing to talk to the United States about giving up its nuclear weapons, South Korea said Tuesday, in a remarkable development that followed unprecedented meetings in Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also has agreed to refrain from conducting nuclear and missile ...
SFGate
March 7, 2018
Of all Donald Trump's departures from tradition, none holds such potentially grave consequences as his decision to build up U.S. nuclear weapons. After a decades-long trend toward disarmament, Trump's estimated $1.2 trillion-dollar upgrade would not only make current nuclear bombs more lethal but ...
Business Insider
March 7, 2018
"Don't Bank on the Bomb" names dozens of institutions in its "Hall of Fame" category that wholly exclude investments in companies that work on nuclear weapons. It also has a "Runners-up" category of institutions "that have taken the step to exclude nuclear weapon producers from their investments, but whose policy is not ...
The Japan Times
March 6, 2018
WASHINGTON – Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Akiba did not rule out the possibility of a nuclear weapons storage site being built in Okinawa Prefecture in comments he allegedly made in 2009 when he was a minister at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, a U.S. researcher said Monday. Gregory Kulacki ...
The Guardian
March 6, 2018
At present the UK and the other nuclear weapon powers are not committed to attend. The UK government should take a lead in accordance with its professed commitment to a world free of nuclear weapons, achieved by multilateral negotiations, by attending and urging the US and Russia to return to the ...
Business Insider
February 26, 2018
The Trump administration's new nuclear policy aims to counter an evolving Russian military strategy that appears to more readily envisage the limited use of nuclear weapons, a senior defense official said Monday. "We have been extremely concerned with what we have seen as the evolution of Russian ...
Axios
December 31, 1999
The most recent nation to acquire nuclear weapons is the North Korean regime, which is estimated to have at least 15 warheads, though some experts say that figure could be as high as 80. As western nations steadily shrunk their arsenals after the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, Pakistan and India engaged ...
Financial Express
December 31, 1999
US President Donald Trump, who has agreed to meet with Kim Jong Un, said today there is a now a good chance the North Korean leader will give up his country's nuclear weapons. “For years and through many administrations, everyone said that peace and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula ...
