The Latest News about Nuclear Weapons

National Security Advisor John Bolton called a New York Times article which wrote that the U.S. would potentially endorse a North Korean nuclear freeze deal “reprehensible” and denied all alleged talks on the topic in a tweet Monday. “A real idea has been taking shape inside the Trump administration,” according to a New York Times article published Jun 30. The article ...

U.S intelligence suspects that Russia is no longer adhering to an international treaty that prohibits nuclear weapons testing. The results of a U.S intelligence assessment released Wednesday constitute the first time that the U.S has accused Russia of not adhering to stipulations under the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, according to the Wall Street Journal. “The United States believes that ...

The Trump administration continues to hold the Iranian regime accountable for activities that threaten the region’s stability and harm the Iranian people. This includes denying Iran any pathway to a nuclear weapon. As part of the administration’s unprecedented maximum pressure campaign to address the full range of Iran’s destructive activities, Secretary Pompeo has today tightened restrictions on the regime’s nuclear ...

The United States’ strategic nuclear arsenal has been based on the nuclear triad system since the 1960s. The triad refers to the three categories of nuclear delivery vehicles: land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic aerial bombers. Why It’s Important The purpose of the nuclear triad is to reduce the possibility that an enemy could destroy all the ...

  by Ryan Pickrell To the sound of thunderous applause, Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted Thursday that his country is bolstering its nuclear arsenal, arguing that Russia does not intend to lose the arms race with the West. “I would like to tell those who have been trying to escalate the arms race for the past 15 years, gain unilateral ...

The White House issued a statement Monday afternoon saying the President Donald Trump had approved several billions of dollars in military equipment and weapons to South Korea in a call with President Moon Jae-In. The approval was described as “conceptual” in the statement which muddies the meaning of the announcement but demonstrates solidarity with a crucial U.S. ally in the region. ...

North Korea conducted its largest ever nuclear weapons test which may signal that the dictatorial regime has engineered and tested a hydrogen bomb. Seismic sensors indicated an event equal to a 6.3 magnitude earthquake which experts say indicate a blast yield of between 100 and 120 kilotons – the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was just 21 kt. The test ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a dire warning in a sit-down interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. Netanyahu warned that if an Islamist terror state, such as Iran, were to gain access to nuclear weapons it would use those weapons to intimidate the world. “We cannot allow that to happen,” the prime minister said. President Trump Thursday expressed his ...

North Korea launched a mid-range ballistic missile on Wednesday but U.S. and South Korean military officials said that the test ended in failure. “This morning North Korea fired a missile from the airport in Wonsan, but we surmise it was a failure,” Seoul’s defense ministry said. “South Korea and the [United States] are aware of the missile launch and, to ...

North Korea’s increasingly suicidal leadership is reportedly accelerating development of a “pre-emptive first strike capability” after reports that the United States is considering increased sanctions and other countermeasures against the communist nation. While calling existing sanctions “heinous and inhumane,” North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations Choe Myong Nam said that they “are not afraid of any action like that” and ...

The U.S. conducted 210 atmospheric nuclear tests between 1945 and 1962, with multiple cameras capturing each event at around 2,400 frames per second. But in the decades since, around 10,000 of these films sat idle, scattered across the country in high-security vaults. Not only were they gathering dust, the film material itself was slowly decomposing, bringing the data they contained ...

Hillary Clinton has been touting her success at getting the Russians to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in their arsenal. CNN, of all organizations, says .. um.. not so fast.

With President Obama’s Iranian nuclear deal just recently complete, ISIS is planning a ‘nuclear tsunami’ against the west. Nuclear annihilation across the globe. This is what a German reporter who successfully embedded with the Islamic State says the terror group is planning. Jurgen Todenhofer released his findings in a book titled “Inside IS – Ten Days in the Islamic State,” ...

70 years ago, a USAAF B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, another bomber dropped a second bomb on Nagasaki. Five days thereafter, Japan surrendered unconditionally, thus bringing World War 2 – by far the bloodiest and most destructive conflict in world history – to an end. Since then, many leftists have harshly criticized the US ...

These days, the Left is desperately trying (just like during the Cold War) to delegitimize the US nuclear deterrent and thus to disarm the US unilaterally. To this end, they will not hesitate to invent any lie, even the most blatant and laughable one. Unfortunately, because most Americans know absolutely nothing about military matters, it is necessary to educate the ...