World
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War in Ukraine
10/29/2024 11:09:22 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country's nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country's nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.
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World
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Region
10/27/2024 2:10:31 PM
An Israeli attack on Iran damaged facilities at a secretive military base southeast of the Iranian capital that experts in the past have linked to Tehran's onetime nuclear weapons program and at another base tied to its ballistic missile program, satellite photos analyzed Sunday by The Associated Press show.
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World
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Region
10/20/2024 12:10:00 PM
The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assess Israel's plans to attack Iran, three US officials told The Associated Press, with one of the documents suggesting Israel has nuclear weapons, CNN said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
10/13/2024 4:02:52 PM
Egypt congratulated the anti-nuclear Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2024 for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 11:55:06 AM
Hiroshima officials urged world leaders Tuesday to stop relying on nuclear weapons as deterrence and take immediate action toward abolishment — not as an ideal, but to remove the risk of atomic war amid conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and rising tensions in East Asia.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/31/2024 11:50:33 AM
Russia on Wednesday announced it had launched the third stage of drills on the use of tactical nuclear weapons, which included forces involved in the conflict in Ukraine.
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World
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International
7/28/2024 9:24:53 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday threatened to relaunch production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons if the United States confirmed its intention to deploy missiles to Germany or elsewhere in Europe.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
7/9/2024 10:01:17 PM
Both nuclear weapons and all-out war are very real possibilities in the West’s conflict with Russia, centred on Ukraine, Karam Said reports
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World
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International
6/27/2024 12:51:33 PM
North Korea successfully tested its multiple-warhead missile capability, state media said Thursday, as dozens more trash-laden balloons sent by Pyongyang landed in the South.
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World
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International
6/17/2024 2:31:30 PM
The world's nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their nuclear weapons as the countries deepened their reliance on such deterrence in 2023, a Swedish think tank said Monday.
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World
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Region
6/13/2024 8:45:27 PM
Iran is further expanding its nuclear capacities, the UN atomic watchdog said Thursday, one week after the agency's board of governors passed a resolution criticising Tehran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA.
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World
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International
6/3/2024 5:55:51 PM
British opposition leader Keir Starmer pledged Monday to keep the UK’s nuclear weapons, seeking to dispel criticisms that his center-left Labour Party is soft on defense.
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World
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War in Ukraine
5/21/2024 9:33:00 PM
Russia on Tuesday announced the start of tactical nuclear weapons drills close to Ukraine, in what it said was a response to Western "threats".
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World
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International
4/30/2024 10:55:02 PM
The world should establish a set of rules to regulate AI weapons while they're still in their infancy, a global conference said on Tuesday, calling the issue an "Oppenheimer moment" of the time.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/22/2024 10:56:13 AM
Poland is ready to host nuclear arms if NATO decides to deploy the weapons in the face of Russia reinforcing its armaments in Belarus and Kaliningrad, President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published on Monday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
3/13/2024 10:35:17 AM
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its statehood, sovereignty, or independence, voicing hope that the U.S. would refrain from actions that could trigger a nuclear conflict.
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World
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Region
2/26/2024 8:45:43 PM
The UN nuclear watchdog has voiced growing concern over Iran's ability to build nuclear weapons, fuelled by public statements in the country, a confidential report seen by AFP on Monday said.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
2/26/2024 4:17:07 PM
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry has urged for legally binding security guarantees not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, especially amid current global tensions. Shoukry made particular reference to the recent threat to use nuclear weapons against Gazans.
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World
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International
2/21/2024 3:42:39 PM
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the country has only developed space capabilities similar to those of the US.
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World
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Region
12/26/2023 6:31:21 PM
Iran has resumed enriching uranium at a similar rate as at the start of the year, the IAEA said Tuesday, as the country accelerates its nuclear programme while denying it is developing a bomb.
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