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Nuclear weapons

September 2024

  • C-17 Globemaster flying through a blue sky

    US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn

  • Gas burns in front of a business centre damaged by a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine on Sunday.

    Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
    Ukraine war briefing: Russia says it will change nuclear doctrine due to western ‘escalation’ in Ukraine

August 2024

  • water samples in jars

    Plutonium levels near US atomic site in Los Alamos similar to Chornobyl, study finds

    Much of the land near the atomic bomb’s birthplace was converted to recreational areas, but toxic waste remains
  • Kit Hill

    Other lives
    Kit Hill obituary

    Other lives: Physicist who made major contributions to the use of ultrasound in medical diagnosis and understanding the effects of radioactive fallout

    • Biden approves nuclear strategy refocusing on China threat – report

    • US ambassador to skip Nagasaki bomb commemoration over Israeli exclusion

    • Observer TV reviews
      The week in TV: Paris Olympics 2024; Atomic People; Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy; House of the Dragon – review

July 2024

  • A participant in the BBC’s Atomic People.

    TV review
    Atomic People review – the quietly devastating truth about surviving Hiroshima

  • Small windowless room with walls and ceiling painted white. There are some chairs, a clock and a phone on a table.

    ‘Every 14-year-old boy’s dream’: Cumbrian nuclear bunker goes to auction

  • China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian

    China suspends nuclear talks with US over arms sales to Taiwan

  • Donald Trump and JD Vance

    Labour rejects JD Vance ‘first Islamist country with nuclear weapons’ remarks

  • 'Spy cops' scandal
    Extent of police infiltration of CND under Thatcher ‘truly shocking’

  • Other lives
    Ken McGinley obituary

  • ‘Letters of last resort’: deciding response to a nuclear attack among first of Starmer’s tasks

June 2024

  • Antony Blinken in Maryland on Tuesday.

    US imposes fresh sanctions on Iran over apparent nuclear escalations

  • Albert Einstein<br>Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein, sitting at a table holding a pipe, circa 1933. (Photo by Lambert/Keystone/Getty Images)

    Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

  • Shot of Putin at the wheel and Kim in the front passenger seat of a large car, driving along, both smiling

    ‘A return to the cold war’: Putin and Kim have joined forces as global delinquents

  • Middle-aged white man with white hair sits in chair in front of American flag, speaking and gesturing with both hands.

    Former Trump national security adviser urges resumption of nuclear testing

  • Brief letters
    Ein Wort für a fear of mentioning the war

  • Former head of GCHQ praises Labour’s defence and security plans

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