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At UN, North Korea says accuses US of fomenting an Asian NATO: Report

North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of making 2023 an extremely dangerous year, saying its actions are trying to provoke a nuclear war and denouncing both U.S. and South Korean leaders for hysterical remarks of confrontation that it says are raising the temperature in the region. Kim Song, North Korea's U.N. ambassador, also said Washington was trying to create the Asian version of NATO, the military alliance that includes European nations and the United States and Canada. Kim came out swinging in his speech to world leaders with harsher words than he brought to the same U.N. General Assembly meeting last year. Such strong language is always noteworthy from a nation developing its nuclear program but is also hardly uncommon from Pyongyang, a government that sometimes weaponizes hyperbole in its public statements. Owing to the reckless and continued hysteria of nuclear showdown on the part of the U.S. and its following forces, the year 2023 has been recorded as an ...

Iran not currently developing nuclear weapons: US intelligence report

A U.S. intelligence assessment says Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons at the moment but has ramped up activities that could help it develop them. The assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released Monday says Iran has moved to increase its capacity to produce an atomic bomb since 2020 but has stopped short of that so far. The findings corresponded with previous U.S. assessments about Iran's nuclear program, although many in Congress and elsewhere have been skeptical of those. The Biden administration has been defending its desire to return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA, since it first took office. That effort has been complicated in recent months by the suspension of its chief negotiator, Rob Malley, who was placed on unpaid leave last month pending an investigation into claims he mishandled classified information. "Iran is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development ..

China plans to triple nuclear warheads to 900 by 2035 amid tensions with US

China is mulling tripling its stockpile of nuclear warheads to 900 by 2035, as tensions with the United States are expected to increase further over Taiwan, Kyodo News reported

India, Pak came 'too close' to nuclear conflagration in 2019: Mike Pompeo

I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over in a nuclear conflagration

UN General Assembly president sees greatest nuclear risks in decades

UN General Assembly President Csaba Korosi has warned that the world is facing risks of nuclear proliferation and nuclear catastrophe not seen in decades

Putin ally Kadyrov calls for 'using low-yield nuclear weapons' in Ukraine

In the wake of Russian troops' withdrawal from the strategic town of Lyman, the leader of the Chechen republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called for using "low-yield" nuclear weapons on the battlefield

Japan bans chemical weapons goods export to Russia amid nuclear war threat

Japan expressed grave concern about Russia's possible use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine as the top government spokesman on Monday announced an additional ban on exports of chemical weapons-related goods to Russia. As the world's only country to have suffered nuclear attacks, we strongly demand that the threat or use of nuclear weapons by Russia should never happen, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told a regular news conference. Matsuno was responding to a question about US national security adviser Jake Sullivan's comments Sunday on CBS news that the United States will act decisively in case of a Russian nuclear attack on Ukraine. Asked if Japan approves of the possible use of nuclear weapons by the United States against Russia, Matsuno refused to comment on the grounds that it was a hypothetical question. Japan's government on Monday banned the export of materials that may be used for chemical weapons to 21 Russian organisations, including science laboratories. The .

Full-scale nuclear war could kill 5 billion people, shows new study

Five billion people would die in a modern nuclear war with the impact of a global famine, likely to far exceed the casualties caused by lethal blasts, a new study showed

There can be no winners in nuclear war, it must never be unleashed: Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that there could be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed, noting that Russia Federation followed the letter and spirit of NPT.

Ukraine war: Why Moscow could go nuclear over Kyiv's threats' to Crimea

ar in Ukraine is about to head into its sixth month, the ferocity with which it is fought shows no signs of abating neither on the battlefield, nor in the rhetoric emerging from Moscow and Kyiv

Russia says risks of nuclear war must be kept to minimum

Vladimir Yermakov, the foreign ministry's head of nuclear non-proliferation, said all nuclear powers must stick to the logic laid out in official documents aimed at preventing nuclear war

Serious risk of a nuclear war real; Nato using proxy, says Russia

US, allies pledge heavy arms for Ukraine, brushing off Russian N-war warning

US, allies promise heavy arms for Ukraine, shrug off Russian nuclear threat

US officials have switched emphasis from speaking mainly about helping Ukraine defend itself to bolder talk of a Ukrainian victory that would weaken Russia's ability to threaten its neighbours

Risk of nuclear war is real, shouldn't be underestimated: Russia's Lavrov

In the interview, Lavrov also accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of "pretending" to negotiate, calling him "a good actor", the BBC reported

India accounts for 1% of world's nuclear warheads, shows SIPRI data

Russia, US hold 90% of total nukes. At 156, India has fewer than Pakistan's 165

Russia issues fresh threat: World War 3 will be nuclear, destructive

More than half a million Ukrainians have fled the fighting since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion

US shuts its airspace to Russia as Ukrainian cities brace for attacks

The US closed its airspace to Russian planes as the Russian military attempted to encircle and subdue Ukrainian cities with intensifying bombardments on Wednesday, almost a week into the invasion

Biden tells Americans to not worry about nuclear war after Russian actions

US President Joe Biden said on Monday Americans should not worry about a nuclear war after Moscow put its nuclear deterrent on high alert amid a barrage of Western reprisals over Russia-Ukraine crisis

Ukraine crisis: Russia blames UK foreign minister for nuclear alert threat

On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused western countries of taking unfriendly measures by imposing illegitimate sanctions and making aggressive statements in relation to Russia

South Korea leader fears crisis in peninsula if North tests nuclear missile

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has suggested he could order new nuclear tests ICBM launches for the first time since 2017.