カテゴリー: Nuclear weapons
New report estimates that China now has at least 600 nuclear warheads, with around 100 per year being added to the stockpile since 2023China is growing its stockpile of nuclear warheads at a faster rate than any other country, according to newly publis…
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledgedFrance’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has spent tens of thousands of euros in an effort to counter research revealing that Paris has consiste…
After drone strikes, nuclear jitters and a ceasefire, the latest fighting between India and Pakistan reveals how peace dies by routine “The arms race between India and Pakistan poses perhaps the most probable prospect for future use of weapons of mass …
Both sides believe they are treading carefully, but without intercession the military clash following the murder of Hindu tourists in Kashmir could escalateThe familiarity of military confrontation between India and Pakistan is no cause for reassurance…
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolc…
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolc…
Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider ratificationGrowing up in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, Oemwa Johnson heard her grandfather’s stories about nuclear explosions he witnessed in t…
Atomic scientists push clock to 89 seconds before midnight, citing nuclear risk, AI and climate crisis as a ‘warning’A panel of international scientists has moved their symbolic “Doomsday Clock” closer to midnight than ever before, citing Russian nucle…
Readers Aaron Tovish, Diana Francis and Caroline Westgate respond to our editorial about arms control to prevent nuclear warThank you for addressing this existential threat to our world (The Guardian view on arms control: essential to prevent the total…
Pyongyang’s envoy to the United Nations says buildup is to counter threat from ‘hostile nuclear weapons states’North Korea’s UN envoy has said Pyongyang will accelerate a buildup of its nuclear weapons programme just days after it test-fired an interco…
Non-proliferation groups call on government not to oppose creation of a study into effects of nuclear conflictNon-proliferation groups are urging the UK government to make a late about-turn on plans to vote alongside France, Russia and North Korea agai…
Nihon Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribable’Nobel peace prize 2024 – latest updatesSurvivors of the atomic bombings of Japan almost eight decades ago have won the Nobel peace prize for…
The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into ‘high seas’ of the Pacific OceanChina has announced the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile into the “high seas” of the Pacific Ocean, flying over the northern point of the Philippines i…
Academics say vulnerability of the two countries’ nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likelyThe US and its allies are capable of threatening and destroying all of Russia and China’s nuclear launch sites with conventional weapons, creatin…
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear blastThe US ambassador to Japan will skip this year’s memorial service for the nuclear attack on Nagasaki because Israel has not been invited, t…