Strategic ties to Russia will be worth little if it resorts to the use of nuclear bombs in its war in Ukraine
Today, 29 August, is the International Day against Nuclear Tests, and the world is under increasing threat following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict: the decline of one capitalist empire and the rise of yet another.
This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The projectile was fired from the northern province of Jagang into waters off the east coast
The international community took a historic step on July 7, when it adopted the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, after a negotiating process that would not have been possible without the leadership of Brazil, South Africa, Austria, Ireland, Mexico and Nigeria. These countries were joined by a great majority of the […]
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/ 21 November 2010
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/ 12 November 2010
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/ 9 February 2010
Iran began making higher-grade nuclear fuel on Tuesday, and the Pentagon said the US wanted a UN Security Council resolution on Iran "within weeks".
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/ 17 February 2009
Israel is involved in a covert war of sabotage to delay Tehran’s efforts to develop a nuclear weapon, the Daily Telegraph said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2009
The US military has been using Britain’s atomic weapons factory to carry out research into its own nuclear warhead programme.
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/ 17 January 2009
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said the communist state might retain a nuclear capability as long as it feels threatened by the US.
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/ 13 January 2009
South Korean officials will visit North Korea on Thursday to check Pyongyang’s progress in keeping to an international disarmament deal.
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/ 22 November 2008
Iran has hanged an Iranian telecoms salesperson convicted of spying for arch-enemy Israel, a senior official said on Saturday.
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/ 21 November 2008
Japan and South Korea are urging North Korea to formalise a roadmap on ending its nuclear programme.
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/ 13 November 2008
North Korea may be hoping to squeeze concessions from the international community, the South’s foreign minister said on Thursday.