NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Ashton Carter nominated by Obama as new deputy secretary of defense.

Isolated North Korea said on Monday it had agreed to further dialogue with the United States, and repeated it was willing to resume regional nuclear disarmament talks at an early date, without preconditions.

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The phone-hacking scandal that has engulfed the British media empire of Rupert Murdoch may become the biggest political imbroglio in the UK in many years … but it remains rather tame compared to the Profumo, affair which exploded in the country almost 50 years ago.

On Monday, Team Inj3ct0r (1337day) claimed to hack Apache Tomcat Version 5.5.9 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), reported the Hacker News.

The wildfire threatening to consume nuclear waste stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory is poised to become New Mexico's biggest ever, burning nearly 94,000 acres by late Thursday.

Prince Turki al-Faisal, a senior diplomat and scion of the ruling Saudi royal family, told senior NATO officials that Riyadh would not stand idle in the event that Tehran developed nuclear arms, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper of Britain

The wildfire surrounding Los Alamos national nuclear lab has become the highest priority fire in the U.S., and poses serious questions on the safety of 104 nuclear reactors across the U.S.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico will remain closed through Thursday, June 30, as the Las Conchas Fire is threatening the nuclear lab.

Authorities ordered Los Alamos evacuated yesterday as a fast-growing fire blazed across New Mexico, with flames coming within a mile of the famed nuclear research facility.

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.