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Russia claims to have sustained a strike against a military depot by American-made ATACMS ballistic missiles early Tuesday morning.

Iranian officials signaled they might be willing to return to nuclear negotiations under the second Trump administration after meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi in Tehran last week.

Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Iran on Thursday that the “margins for maneuver are beginning to shrink” for a “diplomatic solution” to the issue of Iran’s nuclear program.

Ukraine has resources and expertise to make nuclear weapons if it was forced, a briefing meant for top government figures allegedly says.

North Korea confirmed on Friday that the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the communist regime tested on Thursday was a new model, identified as the “Hwasong-19.”

The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reportedly told lawmakers on Wednesday that it had reason to believe communist North Korea has refurbished the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, unused since 2017, and could potentially detonate a nuclear weapon in time for the U.S. presidential election.

‘Important to have modern and ready-to-use strategic forces’ says Putin as Russia rattles sabre with “massive nuclear strike” test. 

Bohdan Krotevch, acting commander of Ukraine’s controversial Azov Brigade, on Sunday suggested that now might be a good time for South Korea to attack North Korea and reunite the Korean Peninsula, since the North has dispatched so many of its best troops to help Russia fight in Ukraine.

As the 2024 election approaches, the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy has left the world in utter chaos and teetering on the brink of World War III — from the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to the Israel-Hamas war — all while Russia, China, and Iran, once restrained under Trump’s tough stance, are emboldened, raising concerns that a Harris term would spell irreversible disaster.

Nihon Hidankyo, an organization of survivors of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee announced on Friday.

NATO will hold a long-planned major nuclear exercise next week, the alliance´s chief said Thursday.

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un delivered a violent rant in which he questioned the mental abilities of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol.

North Korea’s U.N. representative claims America’s “anti-DPRK war machine” has brought the Korean Peninsula to the brink of conflict.

North Korean state media claimed on Thursday that dictator Kim Jong-un oversaw a successful test of a new model of “tactical ballistic missile” that can carry a “super-large” warhead.

North Korea published photos of Kim Jong-un touring a national “Nuclear Weapons Institute,” where the regime is allegedly enriching uranium.

British PM Starmer is in Washington for war talks with President Biden as Moscow threatens dire repercussions for long-range weapon strikes.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told reporters on Monday that the rogue government of Iran had effectively stopped the agency from “complementary access” to its nuclear facilities as required by the 2015 nuclear deal “three and a half years ago.”

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un vowed to “exponentially” increase North Korea’s nuclear arsenal to meet “threats” posed by the United States.

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).