The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Thursday that Iran has defied calls from the international community by increasing its already prodigious stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium, and by refusing to give top IAEA inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
Pope Francis prayed Sunday for the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a topic he has returned to on numerous occasions.
Former North Korean diplomat Ri Il-kyu, whose defection to South Korea was made public last month, said on Thursday that the regime in Pyongyang will be interested in resuming nuclear talks if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov suggested that his country could pursue new nuclear weapons deployments.
As Iran is set to hold a presidential run-off election — widely considered a sham — following the lowest voter turnout in the history of the Islamic Republic, hundreds of prominent world leaders and legislators convened at a prominent Iranian opposition group’s annual international assembly in France.
The Institute for National Security Strategy (INSS), a South Korean state-managed think tank, published a report this week suggesting that the government of President Yoon Suk-yeol should consider developing a nuclear weapons arsenal in response to North Korea signing a mutual defense treaty with Russia.
South Korea expressed “grave concern” about Russia’s defense pact with North Korea and is considering supplying arms to Ukraine in response.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin received a lavish welcome in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday evening, meeting with Kim Jong-un throughout Wednesday and signing a treaty that calls for their two countries to act in the event either is attacked militarily.
Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said on Monday that former President Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “exists only on paper and means nothing.”
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), an arms control group partly funded by the Swedish government, published a report on Monday that found China’s nuclear arsenal is growing faster than any other nation on Earth.
North Korea is believed to possess 50 nuclear weapons – 20 more than in the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) revealed in its annual report published on Monday on global militaries.
Belarusian Defense Minister Lt. Gen. Viktor Khrenin said on Monday that his country’s forces are joining “tactical nuclear weapon deployment” drills ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Iran for banning nuclear inspectors and calling on the Iranian government to cooperate more fully with the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Defence and security major election issue in the UK for the first time in decades, with candidates committing to Britain’s nuclear deterrent.
A confidential IAEA report found that Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium reached 30 times the limit of the 2015 nuclear deal.
The interim president of Iran, Mohammad Mokhber, appointed top nuclear deal negotiator Ali Baqeri-Kani as the nation’s “caretaker” foreign minister following the death this week of predecessor Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) offered to share the nation’s nuclear “expertise” with any country seeking to develop a nuclear program on Wednesday, the latest in a string of provocative comments by Iranian officials, including one claiming Tehran already has a nuclear bomb.
The Foreign Ministry of Iran insisted in a briefing on Monday that the nation’s terrorist regime would not pursue nuclear weapons development and would abide by international law on weapons of mass destructions (WMDs).
Iranian member of Parliament Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani said in an interview this weekend that he believed his country had successfully developed a nuclear weapon, contrary to international law, but would not admit to it.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made some encouraging comments about Iran’s nuclear program during a visit to Tehran on Monday – but as soon as Grossi left, he complained that Iran’s level of cooperation with U.N. nuclear inspectors is “completely unsatisfactory.”
Military is to respond to “inflammatory statements… by some Western officials” by drilling with tactical nuclear weapons, Moscow said.
President Emmanuel Macron called for a “debate” about creating a common European defence armed with nuclear weapons.
Russia on Wednesday used its veto power at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block a resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan to ban nuclear weapons in outer space.
Poland is in talks with the United States about hosting nuclear weapons and has been for some time, the country’s President has said.
North Korea’s flagship state propaganda arm claimed in a report on Tuesday that communist dictator Kim Jong-un personally led what it called a “combined tactical drill simulating a nuclear counterattack.”
Russian again threatens nuclear war, but Putin moderates remarks by saying he believes the United States will exercise “restraint”.
A leader within Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate is accused of trafficking nuclear materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium.
A British-launched nuclear missile test in the presence of the head of the Navy and the Defence Minister splashed back into the sea.
Top Putin Ally warns West off a Ukrainian victory, warning that would lead to nuclear strikes on “Kiev, Berlin, London, Washington”.
European Union may need to develop its own nuclear deterrent “on the way to a European army” a top German MEP says.
Some fake eyelashes shipped in “Made in China” packaging may actually be made in North Korea, bypassing sanctions.
Iranian Atomic Energy Organization (AEOI) Vice President Mohammad Eslami announced on Monday that construction has begun on a fourth nuclear reactor in the city of Isfahan.
The United States is reportedly planning on stationing nuclear weapons in the United Kingdom amid escalating tensions with Russia.
Kim Jong-un complained that the state of North Korea’s economy is “very pitiful” and has become a “serious political problem.”
North Korea announced on Friday that it tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone that could theoretically wipe out port cities.
International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that Iran stymied nuclear inspectors as it stockpiled uranium.
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un declared South Korea should be named “primary foe and invariable principal enemy.”
Communist dictator Kim Jong-un celebrated “eye-opening victories and events achieved in all fields for socialist construction” throughout 2023 at the opening of an end-of-year meeting of regime elites on Tuesday in Pyongyang.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported on Tuesday that Iran had tripled its production of uranium enriched to 60 percent.
The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog warned that it has evidence that North Korea is operating a reactor at its Yongbyon nuclear complex.
