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Unless the Trump administration chooses to renew the compensation program former nuclear weapons employees who are hoping to receive assistance with their medical payments will no longer have the opportunity.

Illegal transfers at sea are one of the few ways North Korea, largely isolated from the international community, can obtain fuel because of strict United Nations sanctions against its nuclear weapons and missile programmes.

Pyongyang has long denounced the allies’ joint drills as invasion rehearsals and Kim has often used them to justify his own military displays and testing activities aimed at expanding his nuclear weapons programme.

THE SNP have demanded urgent answers in a letter to the Ministry of Defence after the UK Government confirmed a serious nuclear incident took place…

In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years on from this slaughter – which the then US army commander and later president Dwight D. Eisenhower called “completely unnecessary” – is an apt…

The move might dissuade Trump from imposing new sanctions on Russia

Letters: We must continue to challenge claims that nuclear weapons are a ‘necessity’, says Caroline Lucas, while Gerry Weston says they don’t protect us from Russian aggression and Michael Newman says they didn’t end the second world war

THERE are calls for the UK Government to launch an investigation after radioactive water “leaked into a Scottish lock” from a nuclear weapons…

RADIOACTIVE water "leaked into a loch" from a nuclear weapons base after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed ...

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog