Category: #Nukes

The New START treaty is the last remaining deal limiting US-Russia nuclear weapons as Trump withdrew from two others. Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/22/us-proposes-russia-a-five-year-extension-of-nuclear-arms-treaty Droolin’ Dog sniffed out…

The Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, told congressional staffers in several briefings this week…

The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, have evidence that hackers accessed their networks as part of…

Maneuvers included the test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Karelia nuclear submarine, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russia-conducts-drills-strategic-nuclear-forces-practices-missile-launches-n1250581 Droolin’ Dog sniffed out…

Biden administration expected to take ‘critical look’ at next-generation warhead, estimated to be twice as explosive as Trident Britain’s most senior defence official admitted there…

The world is waiting to see whether Iran will strike back at Israel or the U.S. over the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the architect of…

President Hassan Rouhani blames Israel for attack as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls for ‘definitive punishment of the perpetrators’ Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-nuclear-assassination-israel-mohsen-fakhrizadeh-b1763334.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed…

Iran has accumulated a low-enriched uranium stockpile that is 12 times greater than that allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency…

Belarus’ first nuclear power plant stopped generating electricity the day after it was formally opened by President Alexander Lukashenko and some of its equipment needs…

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amounts of radioactive water being…

Plans to release over a million tonnes of water into the sea ‘will have serious, long-term consequences’ environmental group says Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/japan-fukushima-greenpeace-radioactive-waste-water-ocean-dna-b1343258.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed…

<p>The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 arsenal…

Russia says it’s ready to accept a U.S. proposal to freeze the number of nuclear warheads and extend the two nations’ last arms control pact…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a strong call to save his country’s last existing nuclear arms control pact with the United States, proposing to…

Germany has launched a new search for a site to store its most radioactive nuclear waste, eliminating a disputed site at a former salt mine…

<p>Nuclear war would be an unimaginable calamity for life on Earth. But according to a new book by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, this is a catastrophe…

“Certainly all the pieces that were in any way, could in any way, be construed as critical of the United States or atomic testing, were…

People like me learned first hand the results of using nuclear weapons. A full-scale nuclear war would destroy both the world and humanity as we…

The mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki have remained unreplicated for 75 years in part because the U.S. and Soviet Union — after peering over…

North Korean leader says country can now defend itself ‘reliably and unwaveringly’ against threats Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kim-jong-un-north-korea-war-nuclear-weapons-pyongyang-a9641791.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and shared it…

Project aims to show clean fusion power can be generated at commercial scale The world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on…