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The leaders of North and South Korea agreed on Friday to declare an official end to the Korean War after 65 years of hostilities and work toward a common goal of removing all nuclear weapons from the peninsula. “The South and the North confirmed their joint goal of realizing a Korean Peninsula free of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday Iran will not acquire nuclear weapons but declined comment on whether he may consider the use of force against it. "I don't talk about whether or not I would use military force," Trump told a joint news conference with German ...

The waste is left from the past production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program. Some excavation of the piping system had been done to install valves in nearby pipes, when a 12-inch pipe unexpectedly separated at a joint and sprayed a pressurized stream of water. The water hit a worker, ...

In 1961, as John F. Kennedy was inaugurated, Cold War tensions were running high, and the military had planes armed with nuclear weapons in the air constantly. These planes were supposed to be ready to respond to a nuclear attack at any moment. If the planes were already in the air, the thinking went, ...

The international community and Beijing in particular have long been concerned that an accident or radiation leak at the site could have ... Advanced nuclear weapons states, they don't have to conduct tests anymore because they've reached that level," said Duyeon Kim, a visiting senior fellow at the ...

Wednesday, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser joins us to discuss the illusion of safety when it comes to how we manage nuclear weapons. Think about that: the most dangerous weapons on the planet may not be safely managed. A single mistake, accident, or miscalculation could lead to nuclear war.

That statement remains true and the paradox today is the amount our taxes pay toward the death and destruction of mankind through the continued funding of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons have now been declared illegal by last summer's U.N. Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

“The most tragic example is the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, when the plant's staff, running the reactor in an experimental mode, ... “While North Korea's nuclear weapons program gets most of the international attention, implications of Pyongyang's pursuit of civilian nuclear energy ...

He is a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in nuclear weapons, terrorism and decision-making. ... and China Escape Thucydides's Trap? ,” published 05.30.17); Here we are, 19 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and not one single nuclear weapon ...

The most tragic example is the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, when the plant's staff, running the reactor in an experimental mode, ... While North Korea's nuclear weapons program gets most of the international attention, implications of Pyongyang's pursuit of civilian nuclear energy ...

"We exist every moment of every day under the threat of nuclear annihilation. Either by intent, miscalculation or accident. Yet this is a future that does not have to be." This past year has seen significant progress and challenges toward the goal of abolishing nuclear weapons. Even though the Treaty on the ...

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 ...

The demon core never actually made it into a nuclear weapon. Following the Slotin accident, it was melted down and its elements were redistributed across several new warheads. Still, its existence offered an important lesson: Even outside a weapon, plutonium posed an immediate danger. All it took was ...

The best place to find them is in Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz's The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate. ... like Sagan counter that we have been fortunate to avoid battlefield use, but good fortune may run out, whether by command decision, breakdowns of command and control, or by accident.

He is now spending the rest of whatever time he has left warning the world about the existential danger of nuclear weapons. ... the contrary, the larger the nuclear arsenal, and the greater destructive potential built into it, the greater the chances of mechanical glitches, miscalculations and launch accidents.

A column looking at Britain's experience of nuclear accidents has drawn particular attention (see "Nuclear weapons: playing with fire", 9 March 2018). ... This relates to its description of one of the worst accidents, in January 1987, when a nuclear-weapon transporter truck overturned onto its side of an icy ...

When the military does lose nuclear weapons, it's rare that their location is so mysterious. More often, planes have jettisoned weapons during in-flight emergencies, for the safety of the crew, and the high explosives built into the bombs have gone off. (Conventional explosives set off a bomb's nuclear ...

Beijing: A road accident in North Korea has caused "heavy casualties" among Chinese tourists, the foreign ministry in Beijing said on Monday. ... Chinese tourism to the North has continued even though Beijing has enforced a slew of United Nations sanctions over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons ...

A United Nations international treaty banning nuclear weapons, like all other weapons of mass destruction, was passed in July by a majority of the world's nations. Yet in view ... We exist every moment of every day under the threat of nuclear annihilation, either by intent, miscalculation or accident. Yet this is ...