Nuclear Energy Now tracks the latest nuclear energy developments across technology, diplomacy, industry trends, and geopolitics. South Korea Keeps Nuclear Expansion on Track South Korea is proceeding with plans to build two new large nuclear reactors as outlined in its 11th Basic Plan for Electricity Supply and Demand,

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly a century. Cold War doctrine argued that such an act ...

It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than that. Once the launch is detected and confirmed as an ...

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I accompanied President Joe Biden to a summit in Saudi Arabia ...

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty ...

“Russia’s testing, and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it,” was President Donald Trump’s bold claim to CBS News about the U.S. adversaries’ nuclear weapons. China rejected this, but its growing atomic arsenal and attitude toward it ...

Yet Trump has long approached nuclear weapons with a combination of morbid fascination and bombastic threats. In August, he announced he was ordering two nuclear submarines to be strategically positioned near Russia in response to what he said were aggressive remarks by Dmitry Medvedev, the country’s former president and current deputy chairman of its Security Council.

Ending the Ukraine War will ultimately require some US-Russia nuclear arms agreement. As the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and most of Europe discuss a peace agreement for the war in Ukraine, an important aspect of conflict resolution is receiving little ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, policymakers and strategists have tried to prevent a country from deploying nuclear weapons by mistake. But the potential for accidents remains as high as it was during the Cold War. In 1983, a Soviet early warning system ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental ...

Many political parties in Japan are re-evaluating nuclear power generation nearly 15 years after the country's worst nuclear accident. Still, energy policies are seen as a major issue in the Feb. 8 election for the House of Representatives,