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Townsville Bulletin
April 21, 2018
It comes ahead of planned summits between the rogue nation and the US. “The statements by North Korea must be followed by verifiable steps that they are going to comply with the numerous UN security council resolutions that ban North Korea nuclear weapons and ballistic programs,” Ms Bishop said.
CGTN America (blog)
April 21, 2018
Ahead of this week's inter-Korean Summit, Pyongyang announced it will freeze its weapons programs. It also said a nuclear test site had ... U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that it was “big progress” and that he was looking forward to his summit with Kim. The news was also welcomed in Beijing, SeoulÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
April 20, 2018
Each year Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles calculates the costs of all nuclear weapons programs to communities across the nation. The Nuclear Weapons Community Costs Project has identified that this tax day the United States will spend $62.7 billion on these now illegal weapons.
PolitiFact
April 19, 2018
On April 7, unnamed American officials told reporters that they had confirmed that Kim Jong Un was willing to discuss the denuclearization for the entire ... Rex Tillerson, also called for North Korea to "take concrete steps to reduce the threat that its illegal weapons programs pose to the United States and ourÃâà...
ExecutiveGov
April 18, 2018
Report: OMB Requests Repurpose of $65M DOE Funds for NNSA Weapon Development ... NNSA announced plans to create the W76-2 warhead based on the W76-1 payload of the U.S. Navy's Trident missile and issued the Nuclear Posture Review in February that resulted in the non-inclusion of theÃâà...
Globalnews.ca
April 14, 2018
U.S. missile strikes 'significantly crippled' Syria's chemical weapons programs. Pentagon official says it's possible Syrian chemical weapons facilities were evacuated before missile strikes. more.
Military Times
April 14, 2018
This site was targeted by American forces only, with 57 Tomahawk missiles launched by sea and 19 JASSM-ER weapons launched from a pair of B-1 bombers, accompanied by protective fighter coverage. The U.S. assesses this facility was destroyed. The Him Shinshar Chemical Weapons facility, locatedÃâà...
WHIO
April 1, 2018
Syrian residents gather next of damaged shops, at the scene where an explosion on Thursday hit a U.S.-led coalition vehicles, killing an American and a Briton soldier, in Manbij town, north Syria, Saturday, March 31, 2018. The explosion on Thursday was the first to hit members of the U.S.-led coalition who have deployedÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 1, 2018
I am writing this to you, after the fact obviously, to review the last several months of operations in the war none of us foresaw just two years ago. ... the withdrawal of all US forces and the institution of a UN-led mission with a regime of inspections to ensure the dismantling of Kim's nuclear weapons programs.
The Week Magazine
March 31, 2018
During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviets ran secret chemical and biological weapons programs, experimenting with the deadly pathogens that ... President George H.W. Bush in 1991 committed the United States not to use chemical weapons for any reason, including retaliating a chemical attack.
Defense One
March 20, 2018
The United States has possessed the best-equipped military in the world for decades. The superior performance of its defense acquisition system helped bring the Soviet Union to defeat and allowed America to engage any adversary it has faced on conventional battlefields with decisive advantages.
The Japan Times
March 13, 2018
In apparent shift, Abe says he doesn't think Pyongyang is using summits to buy time for weapons programs ... TOKYO/SEOUL – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe doesn't believe North Korea will use summits with the United States and South Korea to buy time to pursue its nuclear and missile programs, Seoul'sÃâà...
ThinkProgress
March 6, 2018
Despite U.S. tough talk, North and South Korea make further progress in easing tensions over Pyongyang's weapons program. ... North Korea said it was willing to negotiate its ballistic and nuclear weapons programs with the United States, and agreed to suspend nuclear tests for the duration of those talks.
Yahoo News
March 2, 2018
The acting ambassador to South Korea accused North Korea of using talks with the U.S. and South Korea as a stalling tactic to continue building its burgeoning weapons programs. “We have seen enough times the North used dialogue with us and South Korea and others to continue to buy time to pursueÃâà...
The Jamestown Foundation
December 31, 1999
On April 12—on the eve of the United States' and its allies' airstrikes against Syria in response to the recent chemical attack in Douma—Russian foreign ... As such, these charges of US biological weapons programs in the Caucasus and Central Asia appear to form part of Moscow's asymmetric response toÃâà...
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