The United States has expressed concern over China's submarine-launched intercontinental-range ballistic missile test, urging Beijing to improve transparency and join formal arms control discussions amid growing regional unease.
MIT professor Theodore Postol claims Iran already has enough material for 10 to 11 nuclear weapons and warns any nuclear escalation could trigger mass destruction across the region.
The expiration of the New START Treaty as of midnight on February 5 marks a grave moment for international peace and security, raising the prospect of an unconstrained nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia for the first time since the Cold War.
Congressional leaders released the compromise version of the fiscal 2026 National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA), setting the stage for a vote this week on the annual legislation that has become a central pillar of US defence and national-security policymaking for more than six decades.
Trump made the claims after earlier announcing that the US would be "detonating nuclear weapons" after more than 30 years. His claims followed Russia's move to conduct trials of advanced nuclear-capable systems, including a Poseidon underwater drone.
On 16 July 1945, the world witnessed the mind-boggling destructive power hidden inside a nuclear bomb. After seeing the catastrophic might of the bomb at the Trinity Test Site in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project, famously invoked a quote from the Bhagavad Gita, "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
"Nuclear industry and nuclear capability are the right of the Islamic Republic and the people of Iran, and we have repeatedly said that nuclear weapons have no place in the doctrine of the Islamic Republic," Raisi told a press conference on Monday.
Ever since it assumed office in May, the Yoon government has strengthened Seoul’s military alliance with the United States
Russian President Vladimir Putin could view the prospect of defeat in Ukraine as an existential threat to his regime, potentially triggering his resort to using a nuclear weapon, a top US intelligence official has warned, The Guardian reported.
In mid-March, North Korea issued a fiery threat to the Biden administration when Kim Jong-un’s powerful sister Kim Yo-jong blasted the continuation of military drills between the US and South Korea as “ridiculous, impudent and stupid”.
