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President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty

24 October 2018

Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans


Reagan and Gorbachev

Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart

24 October 2018

Ripping up the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty will spur a debilitating and dangerous arms race at a time the world can least afford it


Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme?

Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme?

25 July 2018

Satellite images taken on 20 July suggest North Korea may be dismantling two important features of its intercontinental ballistic missiles programme


internet room

US cyberweapons have been stolen and there's nothing we can do

6 December 2017

Malicious code exploits are the new weapons of war, but can we ever reach international agreement on how they should be used and who gets to control them?


Penney

The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

11 October 2017

William Penney planned the Nagasaki bomb as part of the Manhattan Project, and kept the UK in the nuclear race. But was he a master of bluffing or a master spy?


Kim Jong-un giving a piggyback

North Korea isn’t bluffing, the nuclear threat to the US is real

2 August 2017

Kim Jong-un’s unusual celebrations following a missile test this year herald the nation’s confidence in its ability to threaten US cities, says Jeffrey Lewis


Costa Rican Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez

Nations of the world agree to ban nuclear weapons – now what?

12 July 2017

Most of the world’s countries have agreed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, but with the nuclear powers boycotting it, will it make a difference?


submarine

Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs

24 May 2017

If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent


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