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Construction Equipment
March 30, 2018
NNSA is responsible for maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and manages the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. The MPB is a three-story, 240,000-square-foot building that will house enriched uranium operations which includes recycling uranium from old nuclear warheads.
Business Insider
March 30, 2018
... would beat in an arms race. Putin has boasted about Russia's new generation of "invincible" nuclear weapons that allegedly cannot be intercepted. Since he took office, Trump has been keen to beef up the US's nuclear-weapons cache, as part of his broader desires to fortify American military firepower.
New York Times
March 19, 2018
... the tactical United States nuclear weapons were removed from South Korea in 1991, the Seoul government still remains under the American nuclear umbrella — and the impetus for Kim Jong-un to have his own remains, as it did for his father and grandfather. “The danger that U.S. nuclear weapons mightÃâà...
The Washington Spectator (blog)
March 19, 2018
President Trump's recently released Nuclear Posture Review reflects an enduring struggle by the U.S. nuclear weapons establishment to fit into the post–Cold War world. For decades following World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union built grossly oversized nuclear arsenals and neverÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 12, 2018
The terms have expired for nearly all members of a federal advisory panel charged with making recommendations and providing guidance for a program designed to compensate workers who were exposed to toxic chemicals at U.S. nuclear weapons labs. March 12, 2018, at 10:34 a.m.. Nominations Needed for NuclearÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 10, 2018
... Donald Trump talks. NORTH KOREA is very unlikely to give up their nuclear weapons after spending over 40 years developing them, an expert has claimed just hours after President Donald Trump agreed to meet with Kim Jong-un. By Darren Hunt. PUBLISHED: 20:41, Fri, Mar 9, 2018 | UPDATED: 20:42, Fri, Mar 9, 2018Ãâà...
Secrecy News (blog)
March 9, 2018
The Congressional Research Service recently updated its report on US nuclear weapons and programs. See U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces: Background, Developments, and Issues by Amy F. Woolf, March 6, 2018. That is also the subject of a new survey prepared by Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S.
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
March 1, 2018
The US nuclear strategy is dangerous as it could lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, RIA Novosti reported. Russia is concerned about the US nuclear strategy review, saying that it could lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons. “We read what isÃâà...
KMBC Kansas City
February 20, 2018
The threat of nuclear war is back in the headlines in part because of the icy relationship between the United States and new nuclear power North Korea. Advertisement. We're pulling back the curtain and getting an inside look at one group responsible for keeping us safe and ready. But they'll all tell youÃâà...
Asia Times
February 18, 2018
history2017. But critics contend the latest NPR reverses years of bipartisan consensus on the use of US nuclear weapons. The review also gives the go-ahead to develop low-yield tactical nukes and sub-launched cruise missiles in the first roll-out of new US nuclear weapons since the end of the Cold War.
All Things Nuclear
February 16, 2018
Not long after the Trump administration released its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in early February, Foreign Minister Taro Kono said he “highly appreciates” the new approach to US nuclear weapons policy, including the emphasis on low-yield nuclear options the United States and Japan can rely on toÃâà...
The Independent
February 16, 2018
The US is preparing to spend billions of dollars upgrading its nuclear weapons programme in Europe, despite the arsenal posing a significant security risk as “targets for terrorism and theft”, critics have warned. Approximately 150 US nuclear weapons are reportedly held on the continent, according to armsÃâà...
The Guardian
February 15, 2018
A report on the future of the B61 bombs by arms control advocacy group the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) , made available to the Guardian, said the 2016 events show “just how quickly assumptions about the safety and security of US nuclear weapons stored abroad can change”. Since then, US-TurkishÃâà...
The Intercept
February 8, 2018
This is a commander-in-chief, who since coming to office a year ago, has demanded a tenfold increase in the number of U.S. nuclear weapons; casually threatened North Korea “with fire and fury like the world has never seen”; and began 2018 by bragging on Twitter about his “much bigger & moreÃâà...
Firstpost
February 3, 2018
Tokyo: Associations representing atomic bomb survivors in Japan criticised on Saturday a change in the policy of the US which advocates modernising its atomic arsenal and increasing its launch capacity. Toshiyuki Mimaki of the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers Organisations expressedÃâà...
MarketWatch
February 3, 2018
That smaller weapon is seen as a counter to any Russian perception that U.S. nuclear weapons are too huge to be used and therefore no deterrent. “While just having a flick through the document, one can notice that its confrontational charge and anti-Russian focus stare [you] in the face,” the RussianÃâà...
Imperial College London
February 1, 2018
Professor Bill Lee has been selected to advise the U.S. Department of Energy on their $300 billion nuclear weapons clean-up programme. Professor Lee, Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, is one of only two non-American scientists invited to join the advisory committee, whichÃâà...
NPR
January 17, 2018
The Trump administration appears close to finalizing a review of the nation's nuclear posture. It calls for the U.S. to develop new nuclear systems and capabilities at a time of heightened tensions between America and other world powers. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Just seven days after his inauguration,Ãâà...
TIME
August 9, 2017
North Korea on Wednesday threatened to attack the U.S. territory of Guam, the latest in a series of mutual provocations as tensions between the two countries continue to escalate. That development came after President Donald Trump said Tuesday that North Korea “will be met with fire and fury like theÃâà...
Livermore Independent
December 31, 1999
Proposed funding cuts to the giant National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory should be reversed, with support increased rather than decreased in order to advance the search for clean energy, according to local Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15.) NIF faces $60Ãâà...
Department of Defense
December 31, 1999
Nuclear weapons have, and will continue to play, a critical role in deterring a nuclear attack, and in preventing large-scale conventional warfare between nuclear armed states for the foreseeable future. U.S. nuclear weapons not only defend our allies against conventional nuclear threats, they also helpÃâà...
CSO Online
December 31, 1999
Keep those nuclear secrets secret. No problem, I'll hoard them in my attic. Weldon Marshall recently pled guilty to stealing U.S government secrets associated with the U.S. nuclear weapons systems and keeping them in his Texas home.
Washington Examiner
December 31, 1999
Energy Secretary Rick Perry on Thursday swore in the first woman in history as head of the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal. Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty was sworn in as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which under President Trump's fiscal 2019 budget proposal would compriseÃâà...