Russian nuclear blast theories hint at no-holds-barred arms race
Amid the mysteries surrounding a deadly blast at a Russian military facility that killed at least five researchers and caused a brief radiation spike, one thing is clear: The new arms race is going full speed. The Aug. 8 explosion at a remote testing facility ...
North Korea fired two apparent ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, the Japanese government and South Korean military said, a day after Seoul severed a key intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo. The Japanese Defense Ministry said the weapons were "apparently ballistic missiles," ...
U.N. chief Antonio Guterres urges Japan and South Korea to mend ties
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges Japan and South Korea to mend relations after Seoul scraps a military intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo amid disputes over trade.
Japan's Indo-Pacific dream or nightmare?
Unfinished political reform, militarization, technological authoritarianism, the politicization of history and great power rivalry is stressing the Indo-Pacific region and Tokyo's attempts to inculcate a rules-based order into the region.
The Pentagon is pulling the plug on a billion-dollar, technically troubled project to build a better weapon that would destroy incoming missiles. The move is aimed in part at considering new approaches to missile defense at a time of rapid technological change. The announced reason ...
Putin says 'we are not hiding' deadly test of nuclear-powered cruise missile
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Wednesday that a recent deadly explosion at a military testing site in northwestern Russia hasn't posed any radiation threat but he remained coy about the circumstances of the mysterious incident. Speaking after talks in Helsinki with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, ...
Japan defense white paper to concede North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads, report says
Japan has upgraded its estimate of North Korea's nuclear weapons capability in an upcoming annual defense white paper, saying it seems Pyongyang has already achieved the miniaturization of warheads, the Yomiuri newspaper said in an unsourced report Wednesday. That compares with the assessment in last ...
Russia has resumed sharing radiation data but nuclear watchers wary
Russia has resumed sharing data from radiation monitoring stations in Siberia after some were taken offline following a deadly explosion at a missile range, a nuclear weapons watchdog said Tuesday, while an American expert said the fact that more than one Russian site went ...
Mike Pompeo says North Korea talks have not resumed as quickly as hoped
The United States has not returned to the negotiation table with North Korea as quickly as it had hoped, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday, but he added that Washington knew there would be "bumps on the road" in the denuclearization talks. Speaking ...
U.S. test of previously banned missile raises fears of new nuclear arms race
The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years, under a treaty from which it bolted earlier this month, the Pentagon said Monday, in a move experts said was likely to have been closely ...
The operator of a global network of radioactivity sensors said Monday its two Russian sites closest to a mysterious explosion on Aug. 8 went offline two days after the blast, raising concern about possible tampering by Russia. The Russian Defense Ministry, which operates the two ...
Japan and U.S. officials discuss North Korea's missiles and denuclearization process
A senior Japanese official and visiting U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun on Monday discussed coordination over denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. During the talks in Tokyo, Kenji Kanasugi, director general of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, and Biegun agreed ...
