NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Thousands of people are being evacuated from Los Alamos town in New Mexico as Las Conchas fire has been threatening the town since Sunday.

A wildfire blazing across New Mexico has shut down the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as flames came within a mile of the famed nuclear research facility.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is known for designing nuclear weapons, was shut down Monday due to raging Las Conchas wildfire.

The United States Navy reportedly halted and turned back a North Korean vessel headed for Myanmar (the former Burma) a few weeks ago off the coast of China.

India successfully test-fired surface-to-surface nuclear capable Prithvi II ballistic missile in the eastern state of Orissa on Thursday.

The President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has claimed that the U.S. government is secretly planning to sabotage Pakistan’s nuclear sites in order to further de-stabilize that country.

The House of Representatives approved a $690 billion defense budget that would limit President Obama's ability to reduce the country's nuclear arsenal and to transfer terrorism suspects.

Even as the United States and Russia work to implement a nuclear treaty to reduce their total number of nuclear weapons, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev touched upon the highly sensitive issue of missile defense on Thursday as he met with President Barack Obama at the G8 Summit in France.

The West is bracing for long military operations in Libya to help end conflict there, U.S. President Barack Obama told the British parliament on Wednesday.

US senators proposed further tightening sanctions on Iran reflecting fears that companies overseas, particularly in China, are evading U.S. penalties imposed last year for doing business with Iran, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The wreckage of a U.S. radar-evading helicopter that was abandoned by U.S. Navy SEAL team after the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan has returned to the United States, a Pentagon official told Reuters on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister signals willingness to create Palestinian state, rejects Hamas as a legitimate negotiating partner and warns of Iranian repression

The Pakistan military finally regained control of the Naval air force after a 16-hour gunbattle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who attached the PNS Mehran base in Karachi late on Sunday.

Iran's military has received a new ballistic missile system on Sunday, which demonstrates the country's self-sufficiency in producing weapons.

President Barack Obama's speech at AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs) Policy Conference as prepared for delivery in Washington DC.

Is Doomsday clock ticking away? The atomic scientists say no.

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.

Pakistan’s top intelligence official has admitted his organization’s failure with respect to the presence of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in the country, according to Geo News of Pakistan.

Afghanistan officials have raised doubts about proclamations by Pakistan’s spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), that they did not know Osama bin Laden was living in their midst all these years.

IAEA's latest status on reactors at Fukushima Nuclear Plant : the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi plant remains very serious but there are early signs of recovery in some functions such as electrical power and instrumentation

Iran is believed to have told the U.N. atomic watchdog a broken pump is forcing it to remove fuel from its first nuclear power reactor, a new setback for the $1 billion (615 million pounds) project, experts familiar with the issue said on Monday.