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From ‘football’ to ‘biscuits’: how Biden would launch nukes
Doomsday could start with a football -- the so-called "nuclear football" as the attache case carried wherever the US president...
Poland preps anti-radiation tablets over nuclear threat
Polish officials said Friday they had distributed anti-radiation tablets to fire departments nationwide in case of exposure triggered by the...
Nuclear shift: North Korean nuke law reflects global trend
North Korea's Kim Jong Un declaring he will never give up his nukes and enshrining a "first-strike" doctrine into law...
France’s EDF faces 29-bn-euro hit from nuclear woes
French state energy firm EDF said Thursday that lower electricity production due to stoppages of nuclear reactors would sap its...
Germany seeks Swiss nuclear waste talks after storage decision
Germany will seek talks with Switzerland on nuclear waste storage, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday, as Berlin warned that a...
North Korea law makes nuclear program ‘irreversible’
North Korea has passed a law declaring its readiness to launch preventive nuclear strikes, including in the face of conventional...
France to send latest nuclear shipment to Japan
The departure of a shipment of reprocessed nuclear fuel from France to Japan has been delayed due to the breakdown...
Germany puts two nuclear plants on standby in energy U-turn
Germany said Monday it would keep two nuclear plants on standby beyond the end of the year in a policy...
Iran announces defence system against chemical, biological threats
Iranian authorities have introduced defence systems in 51 cities to counter "biological, radiological and chemical threats", deputy defence minister Mehdi...
Ukraine launches offensive in south, IAEA team head to nuclear plant
Ukrainian forces pressed their counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied southern region of Kherson, while a team of UN experts were...
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