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US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

Mar. 18, 2024 21:31 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting that...

Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

Mar. 13, 2024 16:50 PM EDT

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence is threatened, issuing another blunt warning to the West just days before an election in which he’s all but certain to secure another six-year term. The Russian...

Putin says Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its statehood, sovereignty or independence.

Mar. 13, 2024 02:33 AM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Putin says Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its statehood, sovereignty or independence.

Czech and French leaders pledge support for Ukraine while looking for ways to help war-torn country

Mar. 05, 2024 12:19 PM EST

PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech and French presidents said Tuesday their countries remain united in their support of Ukraine's fight against Russian aggression and are ready to look for new ways of helping the Ukrainians succeed. “We agree that the only option for us is to continue...

Texas wildfires forces shutdown at nuclear weapon facility. Here is what we know

Feb. 28, 2024 16:15 PM EST

A nuclear weapons facility was forced to briefly evacuate most of its staff due to a fast-moving wildfire in the Texas Panhandle. The Pantex plant, northeast of Amarillo, evacuated nonessential staff Tuesday night as the blaze rapidly grew. On Wednesday, the Texas A&M Fire...

Texas nuclear weapons facility pauses operations as wildfires spread through rural Panhandle and prompt evacuations

Feb. 27, 2024 22:43 PM EST
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Texas nuclear weapons facility pauses operations as wildfires spread through rural Panhandle and prompt evacuations.

Iran has further increased its total stockpile of uranium, UN nuclear watchdog report says

Feb. 26, 2024 15:00 PM EST

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has further increased its total stockpile of uranium, according to a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press on Monday, and it continues to bar the agency's most seasoned inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program, The International...

A watch that melted during the atomic blast over Hiroshima, Japan, sells for more than $31,000

Feb. 23, 2024 16:20 PM EST

BOSTON (AP) — A watch melted during the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, has sold for more than $31,000 at auction. The watch is frozen in time at the moment of the detonation of an atomic bomb over the Japanese city — 8:15 a.m. — during the closing days of World War...

Feds accuse alleged Japanese crime boss of conspiring to traffic nuclear material

Feb. 22, 2024 11:25 AM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday. Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, and his confederates showed samples of nuclear...

Putin says Russia has no intention of putting nuclear weapons in space, denying US claims

Feb. 20, 2024 21:50 PM EST

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Tuesday that Moscow has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the country has only developed space capabilities similar to those of the U.S. Putin's statement follows the White House confirmation...