Nuclear weapons
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China stockpiling nuclear warheads at fastest rate globally, new research shows
New report estimates that China now has at least 600 nuclear warheads, with around 100 per year being added to…
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France spent €90,000 countering research into impact of Pacific nuclear tests
Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledgedF…
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The Guardian view on a Himalayan truce: it follows a familiar pattern of conflicts past | Editorial
After drone strikes, nuclear jitters and a ceasefire, the latest fighting between India and Pakistan reveals h…
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The Guardian view on India and Pakistan: a newly dangerous moment in an old dispute | Editorial
Both sides believe they are treading carefully, but without intercession the military clash following the murd…
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Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …
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Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future
Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, …
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‘Never forget’: Pacific countries remember nuclear test legacy as weapons ban treaty debated
Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider rati…
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Doomsday Clock set closer than ever to midnight to stress global catastrophe risks
Atomic scientists push clock to 89 seconds before midnight, citing nuclear risk, AI and climate crisis as a ‘w…
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Working on a world free of nuclear arms | Letters
Readers Aaron Tovish, Diana Francis and Caroline Westgate respond to our editorial about arms control to preve…
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North Korea tells UN it is speeding up nuclear weapons programme
Pyongyang’s envoy to the United Nations says buildup is to counter threat from ‘hostile nuclear weapons states…
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UK urged to break with France, North Korea and Russia on UN nuclear war resolution
Non-proliferation groups call on government not to oppose creation of a study into effects of nuclear conflict…
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Nobel peace prize awarded to Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group
Nihon Hidakanyo receives accolade for campaign to rid world of nuclear weapons by ‘describing the indescribabl…
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China test launches intercontinental ballistic missile for first time in decades
The ICBM, carrying a dummy warhead, was launched into ‘high seas’ of the Pacific OceanChina has announced the …
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US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn
Academics say vulnerability of the two countries’ nuclear launch sites makes dangerous mistakes more likelyThe…
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US ambassador to skip Nagasaki bomb commemoration over Israeli exclusion
City’s mayor says Israel not invited because of risk of protests at event honouring victims of 1945 nuclear bl…