President Trump on Wednesday vowed to negotiate a “verified nuclear peace agreement” with Iran, saying he wants to avoid a military clash by reaching a deal that prevents Tehran from acquiring an atomic weapon. Mr. Trump, who withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord that Iran negotiated with the Obama administration, effectively called for a do-over…
New intelligence about Iran’s nuclear program has convinced American officials that a secret team of the country’s scientists is exploring a faster, if cruder, approach to developing an atomic weapon if Tehran’s leadership decides to race for a bomb, according to current and former American officials. The development comes even amid signals that Iran’s new…
At the end of January, the keepers of the Doomsday Clock announced that the world was 89 seconds to midnight, a metaphor for our proximity to extinction. That’s one second closer than we were for the past two years, and the nearest the clock has ever inched to global destruction by way of human-made risks,…
Star Wars is back, with an executive order from President Trump that the White House said “directs the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America.” The order, issued on Monday night, didn’t quite do that. It was more a vaguely worded set of instructions to accelerate current programs or explore new approaches…
President Donald J. Trump said he would reach out to North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, raising the possibility of rekindling their bromance diplomacy five years after their first round of negotiations drew global attention but did little to reduce Mr. Kim’s growing nuclear threat. “He liked me and I got along with him,” Mr. Trump…
Putting aside that argument, there are certainly some diplomatic opportunities Mr. Trump can seize, though history and ominous recent warnings suggest that he may soften up his adversaries and his allies with threats of military action if he doesn’t get what he wants. (See: Iran, Greenland, Panama.) Here is a scorecard to keep handy in…
President-elect Donald J. Trump has picked Brandon Williams, a former Navy officer and one-term congressman, to become the keeper of the nation’s arsenal of thousands of nuclear bombs and warheads. Mr. Trump’s selection is a shift from a tradition in which the people who served as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration typically had…
अमेरिकी रक्षा मंत्रालय के मुख्यालय पेंटागन ने चीनी सेना को लेकर एक ऐसी रिपोर्ट पेश की है, जिससे चीन बौखलाया हुआ है. पेंटागन ने अपनी रिपोर्ट में आरोप लगाया है कि भ्रष्टाचार के कारण पीपुल्स लिबरेशन आर्मी (PLA) के आधुनिकीकरण में रुकावट पैदा हो रही है. चीन ने इस रिपोर्ट को खारिज कर दिया है…
Pakistan Missile Programme: अमेरिका ने पाकिस्तान के बैलिस्टिक मिसाइल प्रोग्राम पर बैन लगाए हैं. इस कदम को पाकिस्तान ने भेदभावपूर्ण और क्षेत्रीय सुरक्षा के लिए खतरा बताया है. उन्होंने इसकी तीखी निंदा की है.पाकिस्तान के विदेश मंत्रालय ने इसे अस्वीकार्य करार दिया है. मामले पर पाकिस्तान के वरिष्ठ पत्रकार और राजनीतिक विश्लेषक नजम सेठी ने…
Pakistan-China Relations: पाकिस्तान की सेना ने अपने सदाबहार दोस्त चीन को ब्लैकमेल करना शुरू कर दिया है. पाकिस्तानी सेना ने चीन से कहा है कि अगर वह ग्वादर बंदरगाह पर कब्जा करना चाहता है तो उसे उसे सेकेंड-स्ट्राइक परमाणु क्षमता प्रदान करनी होगी. इस मांग से चीन भड़क गया है क्योंकि दोनों देशों के बीच…