It has been 70 years since the United States became the only nation in history that deployed two nuclear weapons against civilian populations.
On August 6, 1945, a B-29 known as the Enola Gay took off from Tinian island, north … Read the rest
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Iran urges Israel to give up nuclear weapons
Iran has demanded that Israel give up its nuclear weapons, as it spoke on behalf of the 120-nation Non-Aligned Movement. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif said the bloc also wants a nuclear free-zone in the Middle East.
Mohammad Javad … Read the rest
‘Israel should nuke Germany and Iran’
An Israeli newspaper, Israel National News, published an opinion piece on Tuesday in which it called for Israel to attack Germany and Iran with nuclear bombs. The article claims that only through the nuclear annihilation of Germany and Iran, … Read the rest
War does not love British PM back
UK Prime Minister David Cameron certainly loves war.
But events in Iran, Libya, Syria and now Ukraine, show that war does not love Cameron back, making him look rather like a dull schoolyard bully, oblivious to how he has actively … Read the rest
Kiev pondering a nuclear option against Russia
Kiev wants to restart its nuclear weapons program if it doesn’t get enough support from the West.
“If we cannot protect Ukraine today, if the world doesn’t help us, we will have to go back to the development of nuclear … Read the rest
US violates Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
U.S. military spending is not actually being cut at all, but increasing. Also going up: U.S. nuclear weapons spending. Some of the new nukes will violate treaties, but the entire program violates the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which requires disarmament, not … Read the rest
Obama talks to Rouhani
President Obama announced today that he talked on the phone with Iranian president Rouhani: “Just now I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he said. “The two of us discussed our … Read the rest
Israel owns 80 nukes, can triple number
Israel has never confirmed or denied possession of nuclear weapons, but according to new report by US experts it has at least 80 operative warheads and has enough material to produce up to 190 more.
In a report published … Read the rest