The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapon

After decades of progress on limiting the buildup of nuclear weapons, Russia’s war on Ukraine has prompted renewed nuclear tensions between Russia and the United States.

International atomic monitors in Iran last week detected uranium enriched to levels just below that needed for a nuclear weapon, according to two senior diplomats, underscoring the risk that the country’s unrestrained atomic activities could prompt a new crisis.

US envoy to Iran Robert Malley confirmed that Tehran is "very, very close" to obtaining sufficient quantities of enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to discuss nuclear weapon stockpiles and climate change in visit early next month

Iran has enough highly enriched uranium to build “several” nuclear weapons if it chooses

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at…

Statement calls for Albanese government to join landmark UN treaty banning nuclear weapons

The Pyongsan mine is North Korea's main source of uranium ore, which can be refined into yellowcake and ultimately weapons-grade uranium. It has been hit by a series of cave-ins

Russia has produced the first nuclear warheads for the Poseidon super torpedoes to be deployed on the Belgorod nuclear submarine, TASS reported on Monday, citing an unidentified defense source. "The first Poseidon ammunition loads have been manufactured, and the Belgorod submarine will receive them in the near future," TASS quoted…