UK, Australia Double Down on AUKUS Submarine Pact, Rejects China’s ‘Overhyping’
Australia and Britain on Thursday defended their nuclear submarine deal with the U.S. amid concerns it could escalate tensions.
Australia and Britain on Thursday defended their nuclear submarine deal with the U.S. amid concerns it could escalate tensions.
China on Monday accused the U.S. of purposefully delaying the release of information detailing a mysterious collision by one of its nuclear submarines with an unknown object in the South China Sea on October 2, claiming Washington seeks to “cover up” the incident, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported Wednesday.
A former Navy nuclear engineer who had access to military secrets has been charged with espionage along with his wife.
What is most interesting is what is likely to be excluded from the infrastructure deal: a border wall, the Keystone XL pipeline, water reservoirs, existing nuclear power plants, and the expansion of safe fracking.
PAPEETE, French Polynesia (AP) – President Emmanuel Macron is visiting French Polynesia to showcase France’s commitment to the region amid concerns about the impact of climate change on the Pacific island territory, the legacy of French nuclear testing on its atolls – and most of all, growing Chinese dominance in the region.
This is part of the UK’s £24bn defence spending splurge, presumably to be financed from a Magic Money Tree, called the Integrated Review.
Two remote villages in Japan’s northwest have agreed to start the first stage of a survey process that would allow the federal government to dispose of thousands of tons of nuclear waste in the ground beneath the communities, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.
Iran has stockpiled an amount of low-enriched uranium twelve times greater than the legal limit allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday.
White men working at nuclear lab had to join a training course titled “White Men’s Caucus on Eliminating Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia.”
VIENNA (AP) – Austrian and Moldovan authorities have broken up an organized crime ring suspected of smuggling nuclear materials, the European police agency said Friday.
I was so pleased to meet just about the world’s only sensible Greenie, Mike Shellenberger. Shellenberger used to be a deep green activist – pushing heavily for renewables – but then saw the light.
According to international watchdog CTBTO, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, two of Russia’s nuclear monitoring stations went dark two days after a mysterious missile test explosion on August 8 that was originally portrayed as a non-nuclear incident. Adding to the uneasy parallels with the infamous Chernobyl incident, doctors at a Russian hospital complained on Sunday they were not informed that casualties from the explosion had been exposed to radiation.
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, died at the age of 72, the agency announced Monday.
China has increased its civilian activities in the Arctic in recent years, with a potential eye towards deploying submarines there.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates celebrated proposed legislation which would advance the development of nuclear energy technology, Thursday.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been supporting or opposing the radical Green New Deal that would transform the American economy, infrastructure, and way of life.
President Donald Trump announced Friday his decision to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty with Russia.
As the Gilets Jaunes protests in France catch fire, French President Emmanuel Macron is heading for his green Waterloo. And really, humiliation, defeat and — with luck — exile somewhere really remote just couldn’t happen to a more deserving candidate.
President Donald Trump signaled interest Wednesday in North Korea’s offer to dismantle a nuclear test site as part of ongoing negotiations with the United States.
A report published by NBC News on Monday found several American officials confirming that evidence exists that North Korea has not begun dismantling its nuclear program, instead continuing to illegally subsidize the development of nuclear weapons.
An analysis published by the monitor site 38 North on Monday using satellite imagery of North Korea’s Sohae Satellite Launching Station finds that authorities appear to be dismantling key areas of the site, limiting North Korea’s ability to launch ballistic missiles.
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin briefly spoke to cameras before beginning a one-on-one meeting Monday that Trump said would include discussion of nuclear arms, China, and hopes of building an “extraordinary relationship.”
North Korea’s state media, once singularly focused on insulting the United States, has shifted targets to Japan, publishing warnings that “half-witted Japanese politicians” threaten the success of North Korea’s charm offensive towards South Korea and the United States.
China on Wednesday argued that the signatories to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, should uphold the nuclear agreement amid threats by American President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to kill the deal.
New details of the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Mike Pompeo, newly confirmed secretary of state, came out in a Thursday morning Fox and Friends live phone interview with President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump revealed he was pleased with negotiations with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ahead of their planned summit.
TEL AVIV – Days after Israel admitted to destroying a nuclear reactor in Syria in 2007, an Arabic-language report claimed that the Assad regime may have constructed another nuclear facility near the border with Lebanon.
A meteor illuminated the sky in the Midwest on Tuesday evening, briefly turning night into day over portions of Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana before it crashed, emitting a loud booming sound.
Millions in South Korea could die if war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula, including hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and Americans civilians who live there, according to a recent study.
“We’ve got to treat them rough,” he told the New York Times in an interview. “They’re a nuclear menace so we have to be very tough.”
“Today, I hope I speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized nations when I say to the North: Do not underestimate us and do not try us,” he said.
President Donald Trump said that the United States was demonstrating “unparalleled strength” in response to the hostile actions of the North Korean regime.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday disputed a report by NBC News that President Trump at a Pentagon meeting in July said he wanted to increase the nuclear arsenal by tenfold.
The commander in charge of the United States’ nuclear forces told an audience in Washington on Thursday that those forces could “completely overwhelm” North Korea if it decided to attack the U.S.
From NBC News’ Hallie Jackson, Carol E. Lee, Vivian Salama, and Kristen Welker:
During a Thursday joint White House press conference with the Amir of Kuwait, President Donald Trump responded to a reporter’s question on North Korea’s nuclear program, stating that military action against North Korea “would certainly be an option,” but he “would prefer not going the route of the military.”
BERLIN (AP) — A German border region is preparing to hand out potassium iodide tablets to residents who want them in case of an accident at a nuclear power plant in Belgium that has caused friction between the two countries.
The green movement is a religion rife with corruption, bad science and hysteria, and nuclear – not renewables – is the best solution to our energy needs.
President Donald Trump paid close attention to the threat posed by North Korea throughout his career, clearly viewing modern presidents as too weak or stupid to stop it.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked Tuesday whether the Trump administration is considering sanctioning China to increase pressure on the country to take action against North Korea’s nuclear program.