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American academic Ali Mazrui said that the US, Secretary of State Marco Rubio in particular, should be saying ‘what is good for the world is good for my country’.

Could Ali Mazrui’s nuclear pragmatism inspire practical policies?

The Kenyan American political scientist argued that the Global South acquiring nuclear weapons would lead to universal nuclear disarmament

South Africa, as a Brics member, must make its voice heard on Putin’s nuclear weapons sabre-rattling

Strategic ties to Russia will be worth little if it resorts to the use of nuclear bombs in its war in Ukraine

It’s been 30 years since South Africa signed the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and stuck to it

South Africa can be proud it got rid of its nukes

Today, 29 August, is the International Day against Nuclear Tests, and the world is under increasing threat following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The role of capitalism in the war in 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.

Pelindaba is South Africa’s atomic research station. It now produces about 20 tons of silicon a year for international companies which is used in microchips for electronic components including the world supplier of isotopes for pharmaceuticals. This is where atomic bombs where produced in the 1970’s.

South African intelligence services are fluent in NoSpeak

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…

A man watches a television news broadcast showing file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on September 15, 2021, after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea according to the South’s military. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)

North Korea fires ‘missile’, insists on right to weapons tests

The projectile was fired from the northern province of Jagang into waters off the east coast

French and German anti-nuclear activists gather to form a giant STOP with umbrellas in front of the Strasbourg cathedral in France in October 2012.

​New anti-nuclear treaty legitimises the fight for disarmament

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…

Recent comments by President Jacob Zuma and his new minister of energy David Mahlobo

SA scrambles to deal with fallout from leaked spy cables

South Africa’s government scrambled on Tuesday to deal with the fallout of the worst intelligence leak in its two-decade democratic history.

More than 274 people have been killed in the rebel-on-rebel clashes in Syria since they began on Friday.

Syria misses deadline to remove chemical weapons

A December 31 deadline to remove part of the Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal for destruction has been missed.

Supreme Leader: Iran not seeking a nuclear weapon

Iran does not want nuclear weapons but if it did, no world power could prevent it from obtaining one, Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Saturday.

Obama confronts nuclear threats on world stage

Obama confronts nuclear threats on world stage

President Barack Obama is returning to the threat to US security that he calls the gravest of all: terrorists getting material for a nuclear bomb.

Iran begins underground uranium refining

Iran has begun its underground uranium refining at the Fordow site, signalling its decision not to back down despite sanctions from the West.

Sixty-six years on: Nagasaki remembers bombing

Sixty-six years on: Nagasaki remembers bombing

The US sent its first representative to the annual memorial for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, which killed almost 80 000 people.

US expert saw hundreds of centrifuges in North Korea

A US nuclear scientist saw hundreds of centrifuges in North Korea this month, sources familiar with the matter said on Saturday.

SA turns apartheid-era nukes into medicine

SA has transformed nuclear weapons into a tool for detecting cancer and heart disease, with a new technology that could ease nuclear arms trafficking

Nuke talks ‘above Pik Botha’s pay-grade’

Nuke talks ‘above Pik Botha’s pay-grade’

A US academic told the <em>M&G</em> on Tuesday that Pik Botha would not have known about discussions with the Israel regarding nuclear weapons.

Israel denies ‘nuclear exchange’ talks with SA

Israel never "negotiated the exchange" of nuclear weapons with South Africa, President Shimon Peres said on Monday.

Revealed: How Israel offered to sell SA nuclear weapons

Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime.

Ahmadinejad vows Iran will continue nuclear programme

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday his country would "definitely continue" its nuclear programme despite Israeli threats.

Keeping nukes in check

Keeping nukes in check

South Africa is playing a key role in helping the world hold the threat of nuclear terrorism at bay.