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.
President Donald Trump has announced that the US will start testing nuclear weapons “immediately” in a break from 33 years of the country's self-restraint.
Teheran has accused Israel and the United States of orchestrating the killing of Mohsen Fakrizadeh who had been named two years ago by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the scientist heading Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons.
Dalai Lama said as an avowed campaigner for the elimination of all nuclear weapons, he welcome the fact that the treaty will come into force from January next year in 50 countries.
Dr Meera Chadha from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, availed this opportunity not only to return to mainstream science after a career gap but also to show for the first time, through mathematical modelling, that the deadly effects of nuclear weapons can be partially mitigated or reduced with the help of dust particles.
Participating in the high-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the 'International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons', Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said India’s approach to nuclear disarmament was encapsulated in the working paper submitted to the UN General Assembly first committee in 2006 and to the Conference on Disarmament in 2007.
The findings come at a time when India and China are caught up in a standoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.
