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Did Iran’s nuclear test trigger a quake? 5.2 shock rocks Bushehr amid US war fears
A strong 5.2 quake rattling the ground near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant would be alarming in any week. Coming just as Washington and Tehran edge toward a direct clash over nuclear sites, it has supercharged speculation that the shaking was not natural at all but the product of a covert nuclear test.
The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace and stability: As of this month, the world has gone the longest time without a nuclear explosion since the atomic era began more than 80 years ago.
Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into the deadly legacy. More than 2,400 nuclear devices were ...
President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement gave rise to fears of the revived possibility of ...
Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters
VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear ...
In the midst of trading promises with both allies and adversaries during his recent tour of Asia, U.S. President Donald Trump dampened the positive mood with an ominous pronouncement. “Because of other countries testing programs,” Trump wrote in a ...
President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering what this testing would entail and how it would be implemented. In a post on his social media platform, Trump wrote ...
VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear ...