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US nuclear sub accident warns of potential for catastrophe
Nov 15, 2021 15:43On October 7, the US Navy announced that five days earlier, on October 2, its Seawolf-class nuclear-powered and nuclear-weapons-capable submarine USS Connecticut had hit an unidentified object in the South China Sea. The US Navy’s announcement was brief and vague.
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US media oddly quiet on nuke sub collision in South China Sea
Nov 03, 2021 09:47The USS Connecticut incident in the South China Sea should be a wake-up call for East Asia – and the world.
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National Day of Nuclear Technology
Apr 09, 2021 08:06On April 9, 2007, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched the second complex of centrifuges at Natanz nuclear facility under the full supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Thus, Iran entered the phase of industrial enrichment of uranium. To appreciate the relentless efforts of the Iranian young scientists the day was named as “National Day of Nuclear Technology”.
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New report to expose war industry lobby behind $264 billion US nuclear missile 'boondoggle'
Mar 14, 2021 09:38A new report by the Federation of American Scientists reportedly argue that U.S. plans to spend up to $264 billion on construction and maintenance of a new nuclear missile are mostly being fueled by intense lobbying from the powerful weapons industry, not rational or humane strategic objectives.
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Biden says US ready to re-engage with parties to Iran nuclear deal
Feb 21, 2021 09:36US President Joe Biden says America stands ready to “re-engage” with the group of countries that are party to a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, less than three years after his predecessor, Donald Trump, pulled Washington out of the multilateral deal.
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We can’t give up on idea of a nuke-free world
Feb 05, 2021 20:12While 122 countries voted to ban nuclear weapons, the United States pursued a project to threaten China with a nuclear attack. In August 2019, the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, tested two intermediate-range missiles, and then posted an order for a variety of cruise and ballistic missiles.
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US must commit to arms reduction if it wants North Korea to do so
Dec 31, 2020 09:35North Korea says the only way it will give up its nuclear weapons is if the U.S. “abandons its hostile policy,” — in other words, takes reciprocal steps toward arms reduction — but so far, Washington has made no moves nor indicated any intention of moving toward that goal.
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75 years later, victims of nuclear bomb tests on U.S. soil still seek justice
Nov 19, 2020 19:33More than 1,000 nuclear bomb tests have been conducted in the U.S. between 1945 and 1992. A total of 100 above-ground tests were conducted at the Nevada test site from 1951 to 1962. The winds carried radioactive fallout for thousands of kilometers. Hundreds of millions of people living in the U.S. have been exposed to varying levels of radiation over the years, unknown to them.
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The quest for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons
Nov 03, 2020 20:56Of all the weapons created throughout human history, nuclear weapons are the most destructive and indiscriminate. They are capable of causing enormous devastation involving “uniquely persistent, spreading, genetically damaging radioactive fallout.”
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The nuclearization of American diplomacy
Oct 18, 2020 11:00States have long engaged in military operations to intimidate other powers. Once upon a distant time, this would have been called “gunboat diplomacy” and naval vessels would have been the instruments of choice for such missions. The arrival of nuclear arms made such operations far more dangerous. However, this didn’t stop the US regime from using weaponry of this sort as tools of intimidation throughout the Cold War.