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5 days ago · The U.S. needs all three legs of its nuclear triad, including land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, air-launched cruise missiles and its sea-based weapons to guarantee a second-strike
3 days ago · But Australia is hesitant about nuclear weapons. It is party to the Treaty of Rarotonga, which prohibits basing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. When the public became aware in the 1980s that ...
3 days ago · She presented the risks and benefits of nuclear proliferation but focused on observed deviations in policies of nuclear use. Looking at Russia, recent nuclear threats are not acts of deterrence but a display of expansionist behaviour.
1 day ago · In a move that caught many by surprise, the U.S. Defense Department has announced the development of a new variant of the B61 nuclear gravity bomb, dubbed the B61-13, signaling a continued ...
2 days ago · Nuclear energy, generated from the fission of uranium and plutonium atoms, is a powerful and efficient source of electrical generation. Critical applications include nuclear power plants, which generate a significant percentage of the world’s electricity, and naval propulsion systems for submarines and aircraft carriers, which improve their operational capabilities and endurance.
3 days ago · Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear power program have a dual-use capability, in that they can also be used to make nuclear weapons. For this reason, nuclear power presents proliferation risks. Nuclear power program can become a route leading to a nuclear weapon.
5 days ago · Iran has accumulated enough uranium enriched to 60 percent to build a nuclear weapon, but the warhead would be large, unwieldy, and inconsistent with the weapons-related work Iran did prior to 2003.
