Biden also reached out to Putin directly in a message, warning of the “catastrophic consequences” if Russia used nuclear weapons, According to Woodward's account.
According to an official of the International Energy Agency, a UN nuclear watchdog, Iran is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, whereas 90% enrichment is required for weapons and if it further enriches current nuclear material on hand, it would be sufficient to produce two nuclear weapons.
The White House publicly confirmed on Thursday that Russia has obtained a “troubling” emerging anti-satellite weapon. However, Russia has downplayed the US concern about the capability.
A congressional aide said he understood that the threat relates to a space-deployed Russian anti-satellite weapon. Such a weapon could pose a major danger to US satellites that transmit billions of bytes of data each hour.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said even if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, any country uses a nuclear weapon which means they are having a war with the rest of the world.
Initially, the US Air Force released rare images of the weapon, the GBU-57, known as the “Massive Ordnance Penetrator" on May 2. Then it took the photos down — apparently because the photographs revealed sensitive details about the weapon’s composition and punch.
The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Sunday marked its 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, with the mayor and dwindling survivors urging world leaders including their own to do more for a nuclear weapons ban.
North Korea was estimated to have spent $620 million on its nuclear weapons program last year, an international anti-nuclear weapons group said. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization, made the estimation in a report about the expenditures that nine countries, including the North, made on nuclear development
Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, President Donald Trump asserted on Thursday and said Tehran was getting "hurt very badly" by US sanctions. "Iran right now is a mess. They can straighten out the economics of their country very, very quickly. Let us see whether or not they negotiate," he told reporters at a White House event.
The US acceded to Pakistan's demand to overlook its secretive nuclear weapons programme following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the late 70s after Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping convinced Washington to support Islamabad for the "stability" in South Asia, according to latest declassified State Department documents.
US comments came hours after Putin announced that Russia has developed a number of advanced weapons systems, including a nuclear-powered cruise missile.
Donald Trump said that some dialogue or direct conversation with Kim Jong Un was not beyond the realm of possibility.
Kim In Ryong told the UNGA’s disarmament committee that North Korea is the only country in the world that has been subjected to “such an extreme and direct nuclear threat” from the United States since 1970s.
India said that it remains committed to a unilateral voluntary moratorium on nuclear explosive testing.
American companies are not allowed to import products made by North Korean workers anywhere in the world, under a law signed by President Donald Trump in early August.
Intensifying the rhetoric between the two nations, North Korea said on Saturday that firing its rockets at the US mainland was “inevitable” after US President Donald Trump called Kim Jong-un a “rocket man”
UN said the act was yet another serious breach of the DPRK's international obligations undermining international non-proliferation and disarmament efforts
A major nuclear weapons power itself, Pakistan has been desperate to expand its nuclear arsenal to portray that it is more powerful than its enemy and neighbour India.
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