PYONG YANG: North Korea warned Saturday it would “destroy” US spy satellites if Washington tries “any attack” on its space asset after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North’s defence ministry said it would consider such a
Kyiv: Ukraine’s government called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to “counter the Kremlin’s nuclear blackmail” after Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed plans to station tactical atomic weapons in Belarus. One Ukrainian official said Russia “took Belarus as a nuclear hostage.” Further
Geneva: For the first time since 2007, the World Health Organisation (WHO) updated its list of recommended medications to treat exposure to radiological and nuclear catastrophes, advising governments on how to stockpile for nuclear and radiological accidents and crises. The new WHO study takes into account
Washington: Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Wednesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. "I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came
Washington: For 60 years, the Cuban missile crisis has loomed both as a frightening lesson on how close the world came to nuclear doomsday — and how skillful leadership averted it. With Russian President Vladimir Putin brandishing the nuclear option in Ukraine, the threat has come
New Jersy: In a modern nuclear war, five billion people will perish, but the impact of global starvation induced by sunlight-blocking pollution will likely far outweigh the losses inflicted by the explosions, Bloomberg reported, quoting a study. Rutgers University scientists drew out the impacts of six
Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent and for any military clash with the United States, state media reported on Thursday, amid signs the North could conduct its first nuclear test since 2017. Kim made