Why does America have to replace its NUCLEAR ICBMs?
Why does America have to replace its NUCLEAR ICBMs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5ubk8fRMmA
Tag: nuclear weapons
China massively expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities without the same level of transparency as the United States.
China massively expanding its nuclear weapons capabilities without the same level of transparency as the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9D7LSd4IUM
North Korean Military Capabilities & Strategy – Nukes, Numbers & (bad) Economics
North Korean Military Capabilities & Strategy – Nukes, Numbers & (bad) Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF5SSQA8VPU
The US tests Putin’s nuclear threats in Ukraine
“Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine more than two years ago, US and Western military assistance to the country has followed a pattern.
First, Kyiv asks for a particular weapons system or capability. Washington declines due to concerns about raising the risk of escalation with Russia. Vladimir Putin then makes vague threats involving his nuclear arsenal. Ukraine’s advocates respond by spending months making their case in the media. One or several European allies come around to giving the Ukrainians what they want, and then eventually the US does as well.
This is more or less what happened with the debate over providing Ukraine with battle tanks, Patriot air defense systems, F-16 fighter jets, and long-range ATACMS, among other systems.”
https://www.vox.com/world-politics/353796/us-weapons-ukraine-russia-putin-escalation-nuclear
Iran has enough uranium to make 12 nuclear bombs in five months, warns former UN weapons inspector
“Iranian scientists can produce enough weapons-grade uranium to make 12 nuclear bombs within five months, it has been claimed.
The revelation follows the disclosure by the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) that the Iranian regime has increased the production rate of highly enriched uranium up to 60 per cent purity.
Modern nuclear weapons require uranium to be enriched up to 90 per cent but inspectors within the IAEA believed this could be achieved by Iran very quickly.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-enough-uranium-12-nuclear-195015629.html
As the Israel-Hamas War Governs the World’s Attention, Iran Is Quietly Marching Towards Nuclear Breakout
“Tehran has enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear weapon in only 12 days according to data collected from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran is essentially a nuclear threshold state given their stockpile of uranium, with estimated enrichment levels as high as 84%. For context, 90% is the benchmark for full breakout capability. International sanctions on the regime’s ballistic missile program have also been allowed to expire, giving the regime carte blanche to further develop and proliferate the delivery vehicles necessary for a potential strike with the ability to reach Tel Aviv, Haifa, or even a European capital.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-hamas-war-governs-worlds-163112591.html
Nuclear Modernisation – Rearmament, ageing stockpiles and why Russia’s nukes work (probably)
China supported sanctions on North Korea’s nuclear program. It’s also behind their failure
“Chinese middlemen launder the proceeds of North Korean hackers’ cyber heists while Chinese ships deliver sanctioned North Korean goods to Chinese ports.
Chinese companies help North Koreans workers — from cheap laborers to well-paid IT specialists — find work abroad. A Beijing art gallery even boasts of North Korean artists working 12-hour days in its heavily surveilled compound, churning out paintings of idyllic visions of life under communism that each sell for thousands of dollars.
That’s all part of what international authorities say is a growing mountain of evidence that shows Beijing is helping cash-strapped North Korea evade a broad range of international sanctions designed to hamper Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, according to an Associated Press review of United Nations reports, court records and interviews with experts.
“It’s overwhelming,” Aaron Arnold, a former member of a U.N. panel on North Korea and a sanctions expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said of the links between China and sanctions evasion. “At this point, it’s very hard to say it’s not intentional.””
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-supported-sanctions-north-koreas-050256098.html
China increasing nuclear arsenal at exponential rate, expected to double by 2030, Pentagon report says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-increasing-nuclear-arsenal-exponential-223204996.html
Twenty years ago in Iraq, ignoring the expert weapons inspectors proved to be a fatal mistake
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/essay/2023/twenty-years-ago-iraq-ignoring-expert-weapons-inspectors-proved-be-fatal-mistake