Kim Jong Un has been using the development of North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme as his “insurance policy” to stay in power, Marco Rubio, Donald Trump ’s nominee for secretary of state, said.
Nuclear physics is the study of the protons and neutrons at the centre of an atom and the interactions that hold them together in a space just a few femtometres (10-15 metres) across. Example ...
South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile into its eastern seas, extending its heightened weapons testing activities into 2025. The ...
While Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ostensibly opposes the manufacturing of a nuclear weapon, Iran is enriching uranium at levels that are only relevant for the assembly of such bombs.
President Biden confers with his national security advisor Jake Sullivan during a roundtable in Oct. 2023. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Smarter, faster on what matters.
The next round of talks with European powers will take place one week before Trump’s return to the White House. Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, right, shakes hands with International ...
These conditions, paired with cavalier threats to use nuclear weapons, in particular nonstrategic “tactical” nuclear weapons, have led nuclear analysts and experts to warn that we’re headed in the ...