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Nuclear proliferation

Opinion & Features

Nuclear threat still hangs over our world, 80 years on

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

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

Hundreds attend the funeral of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on Iran, as their funeral procession takes place at Enghelab (Revolution) Square in the capital Tehran on Jun 28.
Opinion & Features

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

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”.
International

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

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

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.
International

US hits back at accounts Iran moved uranium

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.”
International

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

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.
International

Netanyahu says Israel close to meeting its goals in Iran

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”.
International

World faces new nuclear arms race, researchers warn

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

Will we see more nuclear proliferation?

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