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Kim Calls for Increase of NKorea's Nuclear Arsenal

Kim Jong Un has called for an "exponential" increase in North Korea's nuclear arsenal, including mass producing tactical nuclear weapons and developing new missiles for nuclear counterstrikes, state media said Sunday. In a report at the end of a key party meeting in Pyongyang, Kim said the country must "overwhelmingly…

Asharq Al-Awsat

NKorea's Kim orders 'exponential' expansion of nuke arsenal

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed to increase production of the country's nuclear warheads “exponentially.”

The Independent UK

Israeli Prime Minister Threatens Iran With Attack If It Develops Nuclear Weapons

Outgoing P.M. Yair Lapid reiterated on Israel's "wall-to-wall" commitment to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons

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Kim Jong Un to ring in new year with missiles and nuclear threats

Kim Jong Un in 2022 fired off missiles at a record pace, lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons and thumbed his nose at global sanctions. He’s likely to turn up the heat even more in the coming year.

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North Korea's weapons programme defies COVID outbreak, reaches 'uncharted territory'

North Korea forged ahead with its missile programme in 2022 and took steps toward resuming testing of nuclear bombs, as world events including the COVID pandemic and war fractured the already tenuous international pressure against it.

Reuters

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Why another pressure campaign would be a mistake.

Foreign Affairs

PM Modi's Views On Nuclear Weapons Impacted Russia Amid Ukraine War: CIA Chief

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's views on the use of nuclear weapons had an impact on the Russians and could well have averted a global disaster in the context of the Ukraine war. Read on for details:

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How Cold War secrecy helped fuel the latest fusion energy breakthrough

The NIF is a relic of Cold War nuclear tests and paranoia.

Inverse

Congress to Establish Task Force to Monitor Iran's Nuclear Program

The US Congress approved the inclusion of provisions from the Iran Nuclear Weapons Capability Monitoring Act of 2022, with bipartisan support to establish a State Department-led joint task force to monitor and regularly provide reports to Congress regarding Iran's nuclear weapons and missile capabilities, in the National Defense Authorization Act…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia could help Iran build nuclear weapons if it joins forces in failing Ukraine war

A former FBI terrorism expert has said Iranian leaders may seek additional help from Vladimir Putin's Russia to boost their secret nuclear weapons programme

Daily Mirror

NATO's Stoltenberg: 'Likelihood of use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine remains low'

In an interview with FRANCE 24 from Brussels, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned that any use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would have "severe, dramatic consequences for Russia", calling Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear rhetoric "reckless and dangerous". However, the NATO chief said he believes "the likelihood of any…

France 24

Saudi FM: Nuclear Iran Will Force Regional Countries to Ensure their Security

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah said on Sunday that Iran’s development of nuclear weapons would force regional countries to seek to ensure their own security. "If Iran gets an operational nuclear weapon, all bets are off," Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said in an on-stage…

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Putin warns any country threatening Russia will be ‘wiped off face of the Earth’

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the Kremlin could adopt a similar policy to the US pre-emptive strategy, which could lay any country to waste within 60 minutes

Daily Mirror

Russia is expanding its nuclear arsenal, U.S. defense secretary says

Russia is expanding and modernizing its nuclear arsenal, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Friday at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin, faced with setbacks in Ukraine, has repeatedly suggested he could use nuclear weapons.

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Modi to skip annual Putin summit over Ukraine nuke threats

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi won’t be holding an annual in-person summit with Vladimir Putin after the Russian president threatened to use nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The Conversation

Ukraine recap: prepare for a 'long war' says Putin – but most Russians beg to disagree

If nuclear weapons are used in Ukraine, it won’t be Russia that starts it, says Russian president Vladimir Putin – ostensibly seeking to reassure the world while also delivering an arch reminder that he does, after all, have the power to swing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal into action if…

France 24

IAEA's Grossi on Ukraine: 'We expect that no use of a nuclear weapon will take place'

Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addressed the danger of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine in an interview with FRANCE 24 from Vienna. "We expect that no use of a nuclear weapon whatsoever will take place in this or in any other…

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Two more classified documents found in Florida by Trump lawyers

Discovery in storage unit appears to confirm DoJ’s suspicions that former president possessed additional government records, sources say. Plus, Australia’s worst Christmas trees

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The Independent UK

Russia has ‘stopped threatening to use nuclear weapons,’ Olaf Scholz says as Putin again threatens to use them

US accuses Russia of ‘irresponsible’, ‘loose talk’ of nuclear weapons

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Vladimir Putin acknowledges Russia's war in Ukraine is taking longer than he expected

Russian President Vladimir Putin demurred on the use of nuclear weapons, saying Russia would not be able to use such weapons if it agreed not to use them first and then came under a nuclear strike.

France 24

Putin vows to continue targeting Ukraine’s power grid

President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will continue to strike Ukraine’s energy grid after waves of missile attacks that have left swaths of the country without clean water and electricity. Pope Francis broke down and cried as he spoke of the suffering of Ukrainians during a prayer at Rome's…

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Scholz: Russia Nuclear Threat Reduced by International Pressure

The risk of nuclear weapons being used in the Ukraine conflict has lessened thanks to international pressure on Russia, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview published Thursday. "One thing has changed for the time being: Russia has stopped threatening to use nuclear weapons.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv ‘working with UN to demilitarise Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant’ – as it happened

Ukraine’s state nuclear energy firm and Kyiv government both claim Russia is using the site as a de facto weapons depot

Reuters

Scholz: Risk of Russia using nuclear weapons has diminished, for now

The risk of Russian President Vladimir President Putin using nuclear weapons as part of his war in Ukraine has decreased in response to international pressure, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview published on Thursday.

The Independent UK

“We haven’t gone mad”: Putin warns risk of nuclear war ‘growing’ but insists Russia won’t strike first

Russian president said “we realise what nuclear weapons are”, in address to Human Rights Council

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