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North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller

North Korea nukes the US in a Trump-bashing new thriller

16 August 2018

This is the way the world ends in Jeffrey Lewis's satirical portrayal of future war – not with a bang but a tweet


Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in

North Korea's nuclear-free pledge comes with a massive catch

30 April 2018

Last week saw a historic meeting between the leaders of North and South Korea, but the promise of a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula may not be so easy


A drone

US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently

23 March 2018

Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them


Donald Trump

Maths can make sense of Trump’s ‘madman’ North Korea strategy

6 November 2017

Outlandish threats in the standoff between North Korea and Donald Trump are bluffs whose main aim is to bolster support at home, says game theorist Petros Sekeris


Front cover of Iranian newspaper reporting Trump's decision

Trump’s U-turn may see Iran join North Korea as a nuclear state

16 October 2017

In refusing to recertify the Iran nuclear deal, US president Donald Trump risks creating another North Korea – as another Republican president did before him


A gun in a gun shop

The US will not ban guns so must learn how to live with them

4 October 2017

The political reality is that the US will never be rid of its weapons. The country must realise its gun epidemic is a public health crisis, and treat it as such


People in biosafety suits

It's too easy for bioterrorists to access dangerous research

14 September 2017

The systems designed to stop potentially risky research being published and used to make weapons of terror have “multiple shortcomings”, warns US report


epicentre of recent seismic activity in North Korea

Can the US really nuke North Korea without starting a world war?

7 September 2017

US defence officials are starting to signal a willingness to use nuclear weapons against North Korea on a limited scale. Unsurprisingly, that’s a bad idea


Starfish Prime nuclear explosion

Would a North Korean space nuke really lay waste to the US?

3 May 2017

Warnings that North Korea could detonate a nuclear bomb in orbit to knock out US electrical infrastructure are far-fetched, says arms expert Jeffrey Lewis


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