Tag: nuclear weapons
Xi Jinping worried about growing Iran-US tensions, suggests restraint
A rise in tensions in the Middle East owing to U.S. pressure on Iran is worrying and all parties need to exercise restraint, Chinese...
Dropping nuclear arms treaty may let US update its arsenal ─...
The US scrapping of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia could launch a new arms race, but will also allow the United...
Experts, images suggest a Saudi ballistic missile programme is in the...
A military base deep inside Saudi Arabia appears to be testing and possibly manufacturing ballistic missiles, experts and satellite images suggest, evidence of the...
US general considered moving nuclear weapons to Vietnam during war: NYT
NEW YORK: The commander of US forces in Vietnam had devised a secret plan to use nuclear warheads against North Vietnam in 1968 during...
Germany, Israel agree Iran must never have nuclear weapons: Merkel
JERUSALEM: Germany and Israel agree that Iran should never be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons but they differ on how to achieve this goal,...
Has US effectively brokered peace between India and Pakistan?
LAHORE: A high-profile interactive panel discussion based on the new book by Dr Moeed Yusuf titled ‘Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environment: U.S. Crisis Management...
New arms race undermining landmark nuclear control treaty, say experts
WASHINGTON: Fifty years after the US, Russia and other powers reached a landmark deal to halt the spread of atomic weapons, an arms race...
Deep in the Pentagon, a secret AI program to find hidden...
WASHINGTON: The US military is increasing spending on a secret research effort to use artificial intelligence to help anticipate the launch of a nuclear-capable...
UN chief calls for ‘total elimination’ of nuclear weapons
GENEVA: The UN chief said Thursday the "total elimination" of nuclear weapons remained a UN priority, warning against a burgeoning new arms race.
In a...
Nuclear-armed states ‘threatening the world’: Turkish president
ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused countries with nuclear weapons of “threatening the world”, and criticised the United States’s withdrawal from the...
15,000 nukes in 14 countries pose potential threat to human existence
ISLAMABAD: Experts have highlighted that over 15,000 nuclear weapons at around 107 different sites in 14 countries pose a potential threat to human existence on...
Washington to loosen nuclear weapons constraints and develop more ‘usable’ warheads
New proposal is significantly more hawkish than Obama-era policy
Critics call development of new weapons ‘dangerous, Cold War thinking’
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration plans...
N Korea, China envoys stress significance of better ties
PYONGYANG: A senior Chinese envoy has met an aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Pyongyang, the two sides said on Saturday, stressing...
North Korea rules out negotiations with US on nuclear weapons
PYONGYANG: North Korea ruled out negotiations with Washington as long as joint US-South Korea military exercises continue and said that Pyongyang’s atomic weapons program...
Short range nuclear weapons to counter India’s cold start doctrine: PM
NEW YORK: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said Pakistan has a fully secure, reliable and robust nuclear command and control system under a full civilian oversight.
He...
Zia assured Reagan Pakistan would not build nuclear bomb, CIA documents...
Former military ruler General Ziaul Haq had assured former US president Ronald Reagan that Pakistan would not build an atomic bomb, classified documents have...
US urges nuclear weapons States to exercise restraint after Pakistan test-fire
The US has urged nuclear weapons States to exercise restraint regarding the use and testing of their nuclear capabilities, a top American official has...
