The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Friday that the race to build and deploy cyberweapons -- secret programs only recently discovered by security researchers the extent of which is not yet fully known -- closely resembles the race to build the first nuclear weapons. full story ![]()

The secretive dictatorship said it would re-start the mothballed facilities at the Yongbyon nuclear facility, which it insists is meant to generate electricity but which is capable of making a bomb.
dailymail.co.uk (1 month and 22 days ago)
The U.S. and China introduced a new round of sanctions against North Korea at the United Nations that the U.S. said would significantly impede the development of Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs, in response to its test last month of an atomic bomb.
wsj.com (2 months and 21 days ago)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran announced two key nuclear-related projects on Tuesday that expand the country's ability to extract and process uranium, which can be enriched for reactor fuel but also potentially for atomic weapons.The development came just days after another round of talks with world powers seeking to limit Tehran's atomic program ended in a stalemate.
bostonherald.com (1 month and 14 days ago)

The move by Iran fuels fears the country could soon have enough weapons-grade material to build a nuclear bomb.
sky.com (1 month and 14 days ago)
Liquid nuclear waste containing bomb-grade highly enriched uranium would be trucked from Canada for disposal at Savannah River Site, under a first-of-its-kind proposal under development by the National Nuclear Security Administration and other agencies. The material from Atomic Energy Canada Limited’s Chalk River Laboratory is part of a nonproliferation effort aimed at...
chronicle.augusta.com (3 months and 11 days ago)

The vast tornado that struck an Oklahoma suburb on Monday afternoon dwarfed even the Hiroshima atomic bomb in its destructive power, according to scientists.
independent.co.uk (2 days ago)
IRAN is expanding its nuclear programme, including developing a possible new way to make a bomb, the UN atomic agency says.
news.com.au (2 days ago)
The U.S. and China introduced a new round of sanctions against North Korea at the United Nations that the U.S. said would significantly impede the development of Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs, in response to its test last month of an atomic bomb.
wsj.com (2 months and 21 days ago)
VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union said on Wednesday that Iranian stonewalling of a U.N. nuclear agency inquiry into suspected atom bomb research was "unacceptable", and voiced deep concern about Tehran's expanding atomic work.
reuters.com (2 months and 20 days ago)
U.S. officials and independent experts say North Korea appears to have taken unusual steps to conceal details about the nuclear weapon it tested last month, fueling suspicions that its scientists shifted to a bomb design that uses highly enriched uranium as the core. Read full article >>
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