As the war in Ukraine enters its third week, the threat of a nuclear conflict hangs in the balance. NATO has said it will not send troops to Ukraine or, despite repeated calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, enforce a no-fly zone over the country. Doing so, NATO says, risks escalating the situation to a … Read more
In this installation of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke speaks with James M. Acton, the co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about how leaders and experts quantify the risks of a nuclear conflict.
The Government secretly plotted to blow up a nuclear bomb in Yorkshire, it has been revealed. New research by archive expert Tom Scott has revealed the alarming plan and even the exact location of where the explosion would happen. He discovered that a dale in the North Yorkshire Moors just a few miles from Pickering … Read more
Exclusive: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is calling for “truth, justice, and accountability” from Prime Minister Boris Johnson 70 years after the UK was catapulted into the Cold War arms race Nuclear test veterans raise hands as they reveal cancer has changed their lives Boris Johnson has been told to issue a national apology to … Read more
Exclusive: Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is calling for “truth, justice, and accountability” from Prime Minister Boris Johnson 70 years after the UK was catapulted into the Cold War arms race Andy Burnham was speaking at a gathering of survivors and their families ( (Image: James McCauley/REX/Shutterstock) Boris Johnson has been told to issue a … Read more
VIENNA — The Munich Security Conference, the exclusive annual gathering of powerful decision-makers, can add one more event to its agenda this weekend: the Iran nuclear talks. As officials signal an agreement may be nearing, European nuclear negotiators are expected to travel to Munich this weekend to keep talks going during the conference over reviving … Read more
Vladimir Putin is set to oversee nuclear missile tests on Saturday amid fears he will green light an invasion of Ukraine in the coming days Vladimir Putin ( Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Vladimir Putin will reportedly oversee exercises by Russia’s nuclear forces involving the launch of ballistic and cruise missiles. The exercises, set to … Read more
Russia’s Vladimir Putin has amassed an enormous number of troops on the border with Ukraine and has publicly threatened NATO if it does not back down. His statements worried many in the UK, that if threatened, Putin could unleash a war unlike anything we have seen in the nuclear era. Putin has deployed over 100,000 … Read more
Deriving energy through nuclear fission is a cleaner, more efficient method of fueling the nation when compared to other fossil fuel-based alternatives. Though it is not completely clean, nuclear energy is seen by many as a crucial way of achieving net zero emissions climate targets. For instance, France has committed to building 14 more nuclear … Read more
A confidential UN report says that North Korea’s cyberattacks, “particularly on cryptocurrency assets, remain an important revenue source” for the government of Kim Jong Un. The new report, submitted to the UN sanctions committee and obtained in part by CBS News, is an annual accounting by independent monitors known as the “1718” Committee — named … Read more
