Nuclear proliferation

Nuclear threat still hangs over our world, 80 years on

While many fear the use of nuclear weapons by choice, as in 1945, a growing number worry about their deployment by error

The Memorial Cenotaph at the Peace Memorial Park, with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the distance, in  Hiroshima, Japan.
THINKING ALOUD

Eighty years after Hiroshima, is the world any safer from nuclear war?

AS THE 80th anniversary of the nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rolls around next month, it is worth asking how safe is the world from another nuclear war. The aftermath of the US strike on I...

Hundreds of people attend the funeral of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on Iran.

This isn’t the Iranian regime change you’re looking for

Driven to paranoia by the level of Israeli intelligence penetration, a brutal domestic crackdown is underway

In a televised speech - his first appearance since a ceasefire in the war with Israel - supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hailed what he described as Iran’s “victory” over Israel, vowed never to yield to US pressure and insisted Washington had been dealt a humiliating “slap”.

Iran says no plan for new US nuclear talks, plays down impact of strikes

[TEHRAN] Iran on Thursday denied it is set to resume nuclear talks with the United States after the end of a 12-day war with Israel, and accused Washington of exaggerating the impact of US strikes.

This handout satellite picture shows damage after US strikes on the Isfahan nuclear enrichment facility in central Iran. President Donald Trump says US strikes on the Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow facilities had “obliterated” them, disputing an American intelligence assessment that said Teheran’s nuclear programme had only been set back by a matter of months.

Trump says US and Iran will talk next week, Middle East war over for now

[WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump said the US would hold a meeting with Iran next week but cast doubt on the need for a diplomatic agreement on the country’s nuclear programme, citing the damage tha...

US President Donald Trump, seeking credit for ordering military action and then quickly announcing a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, has lashed out angrily at media accounts of a classified report that doubted the extent of damage to Iranian nuclear sites.

US hits back at accounts Iran moved uranium

[WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump’s administration hit back Wednesday at accounts Iran may have moved enriched uranium before US bombing, as a row grew on how much the strikes set back Tehran’s nucl...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Politico: “The bottom line is, they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took this bold action.”

Iran-Israel ceasefire holding, Trump envoy says talks with Iran 'promising'

Israeli says the war has removed the nuclear threat against it

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised not to let Israel be dragged into a war of attrition but also said he would not end the Iran campaign prematurely.

Netanyahu says Israel close to meeting its goals in Iran

ISRAEL is very close to completing its goal of removing the dual threats of Iran’s ballistic missiles and nuclear programme, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said nuclear powers including the United States and Russia -- which account for around 90 per cent of the world’s stockpile - had spent time last year “upgrading existing weapons and adding newer versions”.

World faces new nuclear arms race, researchers warn

[STOCKHOLM] Most of the world’s nuclear-armed states continued to modernise their arsenals last year, setting the stage for a new nuclear arms race, researchers warned Monday.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director-general Rafael Mariano Grossi estimates that Iran could make a bomb in a matter of months, not years.

Will we see more nuclear proliferation?

Recent geopolitical developments could lead more countries to pursue the bomb