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President Biden has signed off on a highly classified plan that shifts America’s nuclear strategy to focus on China as a nuclear threat — and prepare for the possibility that the communist nation could team up with North Korea and Russia against the US, according to a new report. Biden made the shift in March because the Pentagon believes China’s nuclear arsenal will rival the US and Russia, the New York Times reported Tuesday, citing sources. The new strategy is called the “Nuclear Employment Guidance” and also readies the US for a possible coordinated threat between China, Russia and North...

On May 1, on Russian TV, the media executive often called "Putin's mouthpiece" urged the Russian president to launch a Poseidon underwater drone with a "warhead of up to 100 megatons." The detonation, said Dmitry Kiselyov, would create a 1,640-foot tidal wave that would "plunge Britain to the depths of the ocean." The wave would reach halfway up England's tallest peak, Scafell Pike. "This tidal wave is also a carrier of extremely high doses of radiation," Kiselyov pointed out. "Surging over Britain, it will turn whatever is left of them into radioactive desert, unusable for anything. How do you like...

LONDON, Nov 29 (IranMania) - According to an interview released Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the international community is doing too little to counter Iran's efforts to make a nuclar bomb. "It seems that the steps taken by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) and the Europeans are insufficient to stop Iran's nuclear programme," Sharon said, according to The Washington Post. "The only real solution is a major international effort to exert economic and diplomatic pressure, and to bring the issue to the UN Security Council, where sanctions can be imposed." The Israeli leader said "Iran is making every...

January 10, 2003Talks Continue with North Koreans By David Miles Journal Capitol Bureau   SANTA FE  —   Gov. Bill Richardson and North Korean diplomats continued talks on Friday, including discussions of North Korea's withdrawal from a global nuclear arms treaty.    Richardson and the diplomats left the Governor's Mansion for a lunch break just before noon, after meeting for nearly four hours. Talks were scheduled to resume at 4 p.m. Friday.     "The talks have been in a very positive atmosphere but very frank," said Billy Sparks, Richardson's spokesman.     Sparks stressed that Richardson is not an official negotiator for the United...