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Iran on Sunday reacted after reports alleging that the country was continuing to enrich its uranium after US conducted strikes on its nuclear enrichment sites in June in during its conflict with Israel. Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi rejected such reports and declared that was “no undeclared nuclear enrichment,” citing attacks on the sites as…
South Korea and the US have reached an agreement, covering areas such as nuclear power, tariff concerns, AI and more.South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday announced that the two nations have finalised a joint face sheet agreement on trade and security issues. The deal with bring down US import duties on South Korean…
In Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb grimly predicts that once America splits the atom, others will inevitably follow. His prophecy came true. The Soviets, the British, the French, and then the Chinese, all rushed to wield the fire of creation as an instrument of war. India, decades later, joined that fateful…
NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC is scouting for land in 16 states for setting up nuclear power plants as the country’s largest thermal power producer prepares for life without coal and contribute towards the national net-zero goal, reports Sanjay Dutta.The move comes ahead of a govt plan to amend the Atomic Energy Act and Civil Liability…
The upcoming 23rd India-Russia annual summit, scheduled for December, is expected to significantly advance bilateral cooperation in civil nuclear energy, with a special focus on small and modular reactors (SMRs) and greater localisation of nuclear plant equipment.Ahead of the summit, Rosatom director general Alexei Likhachev met Ajit Kumar Mohanty, director general of the department of…
Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his claim about “blowing up the world,” saying Washington already has “enough” nuclear weapons. Describing his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping as “tremendous,” Trump said that his ultimate goal is denuclearisation.“I think that denuclearization would be a great thing. We could blow up the world 150 times,” Trump said…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Friday said that India had taken note of US President Donald Trump’s remarks that Pakistan was testing nuclear weapons, terming it “clandestine and illegal”. The reaction came after Trump justified the States’ move to resume nuke testing following Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan’s suit.“Clandestine and illegal…
The United States fired a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Wednesday, just days after President Donald Trump urged the military to restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time in over 30 years.The unarmed nuclear-capable missile was launched by the Air Force Global Strike Command from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, reports…
Vladimir Putin (AP photo) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday instructed his top officials to draw up proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests, following recent remarks by US President Donald Trump that appeared to hint Washington could restart atomic testing after three decades.At a meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Putin reiterated his earlier…
Donald Trump (File photo) The TOI correspondent from Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday said Pakistan, North Korea, China, and Russia were conducting secret underground nuclear tests to assert that the U.S too would resume nuclear tests. In a CBS 60 minutes interview telecast Sunday night, Trump insisted that other countries, including Pakistan, were…
