U.S. government rejects call to disclose size of nuclear arsenal
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected a request from the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) to disclose the number of nuclear warheads possessed by the country, according to the Washington-based think tank. The about-face in the Trump administration, which at one time ...
Pompeo says U.S.-North Korea relationship 'in a better place' after letters
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday confirmed that President Donald Trump had sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, voicing hopes of a quick restart to denuclearization talks. "I am hopeful that this will provide a good foundation for us ...
In Mideast, top U.S. diplomat seeks global coalition against Iran — while holding door open to talks
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday he wants to build a global coalition against Iran during urgent consultations in the Middle East, following a week of crisis that saw the United States pull back from the brink of a military strike on Iran. Pompeo ...
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton warns Iran to not mistake U.S. 'prudence' for 'weakness'
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton warned Tehran on Sunday of misinterpreting as "weakness" President Donald Trump's last-minute cancellation of a retaliatory strike on Iran. "Neither Iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness," said Bolton ahead of a ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has received an "excellent" letter from U.S. President Donald Trump, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday, just days before Trump travels to Asia for the Group of 20 summit in Osaka. Kim "said with satisfaction that the ...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday pledged to hit Iran with "major" new sanctions as Tehran warned Washington that any attack would see its interests across the Middle East go up in flames. The war of words heated up after Trump had pulled back from ...
U.S. launched cyberattacks on Iranian military computers last week
U.S. military cyberforces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on Thursday as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran's downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said Saturday. Two officials told The ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping offered encouragement for North Korea's new focus on economic development in a speech in Pyongyang, turning to a topic Beijing has long pressed with its communist neighbor, amid wider concerns over the North's nuclear weapons program. In an address at a ...
Trump reportedly approved but then scrapped strikes on Iran after downing of U.S. drone
U.S. President Donald Trump played down Iran's downing of a U.S. military surveillance drone on Thursday, saying he suspected it was shot by mistake and "it would have made a big difference" to him had the remotely controlled aircraft been piloted. The New York Times ...
Remaining signatories to Iran nuclear deal to hold crisis talks in Vienna
The remaining signatories to the Iran nuclear deal will hold crisis talks in Vienna next week to discuss how to save the accord despite the withdrawal of the U.S., the EU said Thursday. Britain, France, Germany, China, Russia and Iran will meet on June 28 ...
Revealed: What happened, physically, to the city of Hiroshima after the A-bomb
Everyone in Japan knows that on Aug. 6, 1945, a nuclear bomb destroyed Hiroshima. But what happened to the mass of building debris that was swept up to disappear in the giant mushroom cloud?
EU fights to keep nuclear deal alive amid U.S. and Iran pressure
A year after the United States pulled out of the Iran nuclear agreement, the pact is at severe risk of collapse and the European Union is caught in the middle, struggling to keep supply lines open to the Islamic Republic's wilting economy under the ...
