NUKE WARS

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US, S. Korea set up wartime unit to destroy North's nukes: report
Sep 04, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea said Thursday it would create a joint military unit with the United States, as a report suggested the contingent would target North Korea's weapons ...
Iran looks to better EU ties with Italian at helm
Sep 03, 2014 (AFP)
Iran is looking forward to improved relations with the European Union following the appointment of an Italian to be the bloc's next foreign policy supremo, Fore...
Radioactive material goes missing in Kazakhstan
Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)
Authorities in Kazakhstan are on high alert after a container holding the highly radioactive and dangerous substance caesium-137 disappeared in the west of the ...
N. Korea fires short-range 'projectile' into sea
Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea fired a short-range projectile towards the sea off its east coast Monday in the latest of a series of missile and rocket tests, military officials s...
Iran says fresh US sanctions have deepened mistrust
Aug 30, 2014 (AFP)
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday condemned a new round of American sanctions linked to his country's nuclear activities, saying mistrust had been "fu...
R-7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Aug 27, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
On August 21, 1957, the USSR successfully launched the R-7/SS-6 Sapwood intercontinental ballistic missile, which was developed by experts from Special Design B...
Iran refuses UN nuclear watchdog access to Parchin base
Aug 23, 2014 (AFP)
Iran will not give UN nuclear inspectors access to a military base outside Tehran that they have been seeking to visit since 2005, Defence Minister Hossein Dehg...
New N. Korean launch site near completion: think-tank
Aug 22, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea will be able to test longer-range rockets at its new launch site before the end of this year, a US think-tank has said. A major construction program...
Iran denies linking Iraq role to Western sanctions
Aug 21, 2014 (AFP)
Iran on Thursday denied linking any future cooperation with the international community against jihadists in Iraq to the lifting of crippling Western sanctions....
USAF selects GenDyn to study ICBM guidance system
Aug 20, 2014 (UPI)
Modernization of guidance systems for next-gen U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles is to be conducted by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. The...
Iran won't accept nuclear restraints 'beyond IAEA rules'
Aug 17, 2014 (AFP)
Iran will reject any restraints on its nuclear operations outside the international rules set by the industry watchdog, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday....
N. Korea threatens 'merciless' strike against US-S.Korea drill
Aug 17, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea warned Sunday of a possible "merciless" pre-emptive strike as it blasted an upcoming joint US-South Korean military exercise as a rehearsal for nucl...
N. Korea says rockets not linked to visit by 'so-called pope'
Aug 15, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea on Friday ridiculed suggestions that it had sought to upstage the visit of the "so-called pope" to South Korea by firing a series of short-range roc...
N. Korea fires rockets as Pope arrives in South
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea fired five short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Thursday, just as Pope Francis arrived in Seoul for a five-day visit. The launches be...
Dialogue not 'displays of force' key to Korean peace: Pope
Aug 14, 2014 (AFP)
Pope Francis said dialogue and not "displays of force" would bring peace to the divided Korean peninsula as he began a visit Thursday to South Korea that the nu...
Maryam Mirzakhani first woman to win Fields Medal
Aug 13, 2014 (UPI)
For the first time in history, the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in mathematics -- the equivalent, some say, of a Nobel Prize -- has been awarded to ...
Antineutrino detectors could aid non-proliferation
Aug 13, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and even in the fictional world of CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" look to subatomic particles called neutrino...
N. Korea warns South over upcoming drill with US
Aug 13, 2014 (AFP)
North Korea warned South Korea on Thursday that failure to cancel an upcoming military drill with the United States would push the two sides "to the brink of wa...
US prepared to increase pressure on N. Korea: Kerry
Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday he was prepared to improve relations with North Korea, but warned of further pressure and isolation if it chose th...
Iran president under fire for branding critics 'cowards'
Aug 12, 2014 (AFP)
Iran's president came under fire from MPs Tuesday for branding his critics as "political cowards' and urging them "go to hell" if they insist on opposing his po...
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