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What is Hair-Trigger Alert?
U.S. nuclear weapons can be launched in under 2 minutes. Does that really make us safer?
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Flash from the past: Why an apparent Israeli nuclear test in 1979 matters today
At a time when the Iran agreement is in the headlines and other Middle Eastern countries—notably Saudi Arabia—are making noises about establishing their own programs for nuclear energy and nuclear weapons, it is worth giving renewed scrutiny to an event that occurred 36 years ago: a likely Israeli-South African nuclear test over the ocean between the southern part of Africa and the Antarctic.
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Audit shows security gaps persist at nuclear weapons complex penetrated by nun and other activists in 2012
A $50 million security system at the Y-12 nuclear complex that stores fissile material for 10,000 nuclear bombs is still malfunctioning
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North Korea Says It Is Bolstering Its Nuclear Arsenal
North Korea said on Tuesday that it was improving its nuclear arsenal in both “quality and quantity,” reaffirming that the country’s main nuclear complex, including its only disclosed uranium-enrichment plant, was in full operation. North Korean scientists and engineers have made innovations “to guarantee the reliability of the nuclear deterrent in every way by steadily improving the levels of nuclear weapons with various missions in quality and quantity,” the state-run Korean Central News...
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Our not so peaceful nuclear future
On Thursday, in a teleconference sponsored by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, nuclear weapons expert Henry Sokolski discussed his recent book "Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future." The book's central thesis is that if "states become more willing to use their nuclear weapons to achieve military advantage … US security may become hostage to nuclear proliferation" and a number of other dangers.
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Minutes To Midnight - Nuclear Fruit, Part Three
A five part exploration of the Cold War's effect on video games.
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Nuclear Materials Peddled in Moldova to Extremists
Authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists.
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Iran tests new precision-guided ballistic missile
Iran tested a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday in defiance of a United Nations ban, signaling an apparent advance in Iranian attempts to improve the accuracy of its missile arsenal. The Islamic Republic has one of the largest missile programs in the Middle East, but its potential effectiveness has been limited by poor accuracy.
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White House says Iran's missile test may have violated U.N. resolution
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday that there are "strong indications" that Iran's test of a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday violated a U.N. Security Council resolution. The U.N. Security Council prohibits Iran from undertaking any activity related to ballistic missiles that could deliver a nuclear warhead, but Iranian officials have pledged to ignore the ban.
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U.S. confirms Iran tested nuclear-capable ballistic missile
The United States has confirmed that Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon, in "clear violation" of a United Nations Security Council ban on ballistic missile tests, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. "The United States is deeply concerned about Iran's recent ballistic missile launch," the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said in a statement.
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WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
"Let's play Global Thermonuclear War." Thirty-two years ago, just months after the release of the movie WarGames, the world came the closest it ever has to nuclear Armageddon. In the movie version of a global near-death experience, a teenage hacker messing around with an artificial intelligence program that just happened to control the American nuclear missile force unleashes chaos. In reality, a very different computer program run by the Soviets fed growing paranoia...
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28th November 1954 - Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, the first man to create and control a nuclear chain reaction, and one of the Manhattan Project scientists, dies in Chicago at the age of 53.
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Tremor Detected Near North Korea Nuclear Site
A 5.1 magnitude tremor is detected in North Korea, close to a site previously used to conduct nuclear tests.
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N. Korea says test no threat, then threatens to wipe out US
North Korea said Tuesday its nuclear test was not intended to be a provocation or threat, as it laid out plans for a weapons system capable of obliterating the entire United States. A lengthy commentary by the official KCNA news agency underlined the North's claim that last Wednesday's test was of a powerful miniaturised hydrogen bomb which marked a "new high stage" in the country's search for a credible nuclear deterrent.
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The Traveling Salesmen of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
A new book collects their business cards in all their well-designed detail.
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Iran Nuclear Deal: International Sanctions Lifted
International sanctions on Iran are lifted after its compliance with obligations under the nuclear agreement with world powers was certified.
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Iran Nuclear Deal:US Imposes New Sanctions over Missiles
US imposes sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals over a ballistic missile programme, hours after international nuclear sanctions were lifted.
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Israel’s sea-based nukes pose risks
The story has been covered extensively in Germany and even in Israel, but it seems to have largely escaped notice in the United States: Israel has acquired a fleet of advanced German submarines that—Prime Minister Netanyahu has signaled—carry nuclear weapons pointed at Iran. The Obama administration’s pretense that it knows nothing about any nuclear weapons in Israel makes intelligent discussion about the dangers of nuclear weapons...
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An underground fire is burning near a nuclear waste dump, and officials say EPA has been too slow to react
Her first clue that something was wrong came as she ran her hands through her baby boy’s hair. “My child was losing his hair in clumps,” Meagan Beckermann recalls. A doctor traced the problem to alopecia areata, an autoimmune disease that can be triggered by environmental factors.
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Thousands March in Central London to Oppose Nuclear Arms
Thousands have marched through London to oppose the renewal of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system in what demonstrators describe as the biggest such rally in a generation. Waving placards and banners, the protesters offered their opposition Saturday ahead of a final government decision on whether to replace the current generation of submarines that carry the nuclear warheads.
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