Tag Archives: Nuclear Weapons

  “According to Kim Jong-un, Washington is also fuelling regional conflicts. In a speech to mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the country’s armed forces, he therefore called for a strengthening of the country’s nuclear forces” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | FEBRUARY 10, 2025 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un threatens to step up all deterrence measures, including nuclear capabilities. ...

  On November 21, the IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution urging Iran to improve cooperation with the agency and submit a “comprehensive” report, pressuring Tehran to resume nuclear talks. In response, Iran announced the activation of a “substantial” number of new “advanced” centrifuges. PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 15, 2024 Iran’s atomic chief stated on Saturday that the ...

  Tehran currently enriches uranium at 60%, a little short of weapons-grade levels of 90%. “I think it is very concerning,” Grossi said. if they really make them turn — all of them — it’s going to be a huge jump.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 7, 2024 Iran is prepared to “quite dramatically” grow its levels of near weapons-grade ...

  “The Serbian president, whose country was the subject of an extensive NATO bombing campaign in 1999, referred to Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine, which was approved by Putin on November 19. The document allows Moscow to treat an attack by a non-nuclear state, backed by a nuclear power, as equivalent to direct nuclear aggression” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 25, ...

  “Given the intense state of conflict between Iran and Israel, people have started linking the earthquakes in these two countries with Iran’s nuclear tests on social media. There have been speculations in many reports that it was not an earthquake rather Iran conducted underground nuclear tests due to which a shock was felt in both the countries” PEGASUS REPORTERS, ...

  It was announced in April this year that the US will begin production of the new W93 nuclear warhead for ICBMs for the first time in 40 years. It has been under development since May 2022 at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory and does not involve nuclear testing, the government and the National Nuclear Security Agency ...