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In 1976, as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin hosted South Africa’s Prime Minister John Vorster at Jerusalem’s Holocaust memorial, a far more significant partnership was taking shape behind closed doors. The two nations had already begun a clandestine nuclear collaboration that would reshape the military landscape of the twentieth century. Recently declassified documents reveal the […]

France will not respond with nuclear weapons should Russia use them against Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. “Our doctrine rests on the fundamental interests of the nation,” Mr Macron told public broadcaster France 2 on Wednesday. “They are defined clearly and wouldn’t be directly affected at all if, for example, there was a ballistic nuclear attack in Ukraine, in […]

North Korea issued another threat of nuclear annihilation against the U.S. on Thursday, vowing to unleash an “unimaginable strike at an unimaginable time.” The warning comes as American military forces conduct ongoing joint naval exercises with South Korea. “The U.S. is running amok by introducing under our nose the targets we have set as primary […]

Russia has floated out the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker ship as the country moves to reinforce its leadership in the Arctic. Crowds gathered to watch as the Sibir, designed to transport cargo along the Northern Sea Route, was launched into the water at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg. She is powered by two nuclear […]

Iran has accused the US of not living up to its side of the 2015 landmark nuclear deal after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Tehran over its ballistic missiles programmAbbas Aragchi, Iranian deputy foreign minister, said on Friday that the sanctions “violate” the terms of the agreement Washington and five other world powers signed with […]

The UN Security Council voted unanimously to add 15 individuals and four entities linked to North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes to a UN sanctions blacklist, but Chinese opposition blocked tougher new sanctions that the United States was pushing. While the resolution will impose a global travel ban and asset freeze on a range of […]

North Korea said Tuesday it has successfully test-fired a ballistic missile using what it called a precision control guidance system, hitting a planned target with an accuracy of 7 meters. A day after North Korea test-fired a ballistic missile that flew some 400 kilometers before apparently falling into waters within Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the […]

Satellite imagery of North Korea’s main nuclear test site taken over the weekend indicates that Pyongyang could be in the final stages of preparations for a sixth nuclear test, a U.S. think tank reported on Tuesday. Washington-based 38 North, a website that monitors North Korea, said the images from Saturday showed the continued presence of […]

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea has nothing to fear from any U.S. move to broaden sanctions aimed at cutting it off from the global financial system and will pursue “acceleration” of its nuclear and missile programmes, a North Korean envoy told Reuters on Tuesday. This includes developing a “pre-emptive first strike capability” […]