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  • Zelenskyy wants nukes or NATO; Trump special envoy Kellogg says 'slim and none' chance

    02/06/2025 8:16:47 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 89 replies
    Fox News Yahoo News ^ | 2/6/2025 | Caitlin McFall
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week said that if the U.S. cannot guarantee a quick path toward NATO membership, then there are alternative security options Kyiv would accept: nuclear weapons. But don't think the United States is eager to agree to those terms. "The chance of them getting their nuclear weapons back is somewhere between slim and none," retired Lt. General Keith Kellogg, special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told Fox News Digital. "Let's be honest about it, we both know that's not going to happen."
  • Russia warns Trump: Do not test nuclear weapon

    12/27/2024 1:25:37 PM PST · by Apparatchik · 74 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 27 December 2024 | Daniel Hardaker
    Moscow has warned Donald Trump against resuming the testing of nuclear weapons when he takes office, saying it would “not rule anything out” in response to US aggression. Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister who oversees arms control, noted that Mr Trump refused to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty during his first term. Referencing this refusal, Mr Ryabkov said: “American policy in its various aspects is extremely hostile to us today.” “So the options for us to act in the interests of ensuring security and the potential measures and actions we have to do this - and to send politically...
  • White House: Our Attempts at Keeping Iran from Getting Nukes Through Diplomacy ‘Didn’t Work’

    12/14/2024 3:18:56 PM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 107 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 14 Dec | IAN HANCHETT
    On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby stated that Iran will not be allowed to get a nuclear weapons capability, and “We had tried to do this through diplomacy. Obviously, that didn’t work, because the Iranians were not willing to negotiate in good faith.” Kirby said, “President Biden has made it very clear, we will not, will not allow Iran to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, and we will not take any option off the table to prevent that outcome. I’m not going to speculate here today and tell...
  • Sullivan denies report that Biden admin is thinking about giving Ukraine its nukes back

    12/01/2024 2:48:51 PM PST · by McGruff · 11 replies
    NY Post ^ | Dec 1, 2024 | Ryan King
    Outgoing National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan denied reports that the Biden administration is considering returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine, after the country relinquished its stockpile three decades ago after the fall of the Soviet Union. Last month, the New York Times reported that several anonymous officials floated the idea of Ukraine becoming a nuclear power again as a deterrent against its Russian invaders. “That is not under consideration. No,” Sullivan told ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday when asked about the report. “What we are doing is surging various conventional capacities to Ukraine so that they can effectively defend themselves...
  • Russia condemns ‘irresponsible’ talk of nuclear weapons for Ukraine

    11/26/2024 8:11:57 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 24 replies
    The Straits Times ^ | Nov 26, 2024, 10:38 PM | Reuters
    MOSCOW - Discussion in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons is "absolutely irresponsible", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, in response to a report in the New York Times citing unidentified officials who suggested such a possibility.The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.S. President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons before he leaves office."Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such...
  • STRATCOM Commander Makes Case for Nuclear Modernization

    11/24/2024 1:44:06 AM PST · by EBH · 53 replies
    USNI News ^ | 11/20/24 | John Grady
    The U.S. nuclear triad must be modernized to keep pace with changing threats in the future, the nation’s senior officer in charge of strategic forces said on Tuesday. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton, speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, added “for the United States nuclear deterrence is baseline strategy” stopping adversaries from crossing thresholds because they know American capability to respond. China, being a nuclear power and rapidly expanding its arsenal, changes the strategic equation from the Cold War with the Soviet Union, he said. Where there was little economic interaction between Moscow and Washington in...
  • Iran defies international pressure, increasing its stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium, UN says

    11/19/2024 12:00:31 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 19 replies
    Associated Press ^ | November 19, 2024 | Stephanie Liechtenstein
    Iran has defied international demands to rein in its nuclear program and has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, according to a confidential report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen Tuesday by The Associated Press. The report by the International Atomic Energy Agency said that as of Oct. 26, Iran has 182.3 kilograms (401.9 pounds) of uranium enriched up to 60%, an increase of 17.6 kilograms (38.8 pounds) since the last report in August. Uranium enriched at 60% purity is just a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%. The IAEA also estimated...
  • Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program Just Took a Yuge Hit

    11/15/2024 7:25:37 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 11/16/2024 | Stephen Green
    Israel's Oct. 26 retaliatory strike on Iran "destroyed an active top secret nuclear weapons research facility," according to an Axios report. The news outlet spoke to various U.S. and Israeli officials about the strikes, including one on Iran's Parchin Military Complex, a nuclear research facility that was "previously reported to be inactive." "One former Israeli official briefed on the strike said it destroyed sophisticated equipment used to design the plastic explosives that surround uranium in a nuclear device and are needed to detonate it." Iran claims to have brought its military nuclear program to a halt in 2003, and yet...
  • Does Ukraine really want to go nuclear?

    10/19/2024 7:01:54 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 77 replies
    Euronews ^ | 10/19/24 | Sasha Vakulina
    Apart from joining NATO, Ukraine’s only option would be nuclear weapons, Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the European Council earlier this week while discussing what needs to be done to protect the eastern European country still fending off Moscow's invasion. “Who gave up nuclear weapons? All of them? ... Ukraine. Who is fighting today? Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said. As one can imagine, the statement had a ballistic impact. Later that day, in a meeting with NATO top chief Mark Rutte, Zelenskyy had to explain that Ukraine has never discussed preparing to produce any nuclear weapons or to build a nuclear bomb.
  • Zelensky says he told Trump Ukraine will pursue nuclear weapons if it can’t join NATO

    10/17/2024 1:34:02 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 67 replies
    NY Post ^ | 10/17/2024 | DIANA GLEBOVA
    Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he has told former President Donald Trump that Kyiv will pursue nuclear weapons for defense if it doesn’t gain entry to NATO. “In a conversation with Donald Trump, I told him it comes to this,” Zelensky said in Ukrainian while speaking to the European Council in Brussels. “The outcome is either Ukraine will be a nuclear power — and that will be our protection — or we should have some kind of alliance. Other than NATO, today we don’t know of any effective alliances.” Zelensky, 46, emphasized that Ukraine is choosing to pursue membership...
  • How The Biden/Harris Admin Helped Iran Get To The Brink Of A Nuclear Bomb

    10/12/2024 8:58:43 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 10/12/2024 | Fred Fleitz
    Iran has made enormous progress in its nuclear weapons program during the Biden/Harris administration and reportedly can now enrich enough weapons-grade uranium to fuel nine nuclear bombs in one month. Although Iran may be nine months to a year away from having an operational nuclear weapon, recent attacks by Iran and Israel against each other’s territory have raised concerns that Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program could lead to a nuclear war in the Middle East.Biden/Harris administration officials have tried to blame President Trump for the advances in Iran’s nuclear program because he withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran,...
  • Did Iran conduct underground nuclear test on Saturday night? 'Measured' earthquake in region suggests…

    10/07/2024 3:01:30 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 69 replies
    India.com via MSN ^ | 10/07/2024
    An earthquake of moderate intensity occurred in Iran and Israel on Saturday night, October 5. Strangely enough, both the countries experienced the earthquake at a marginal difference in the timing. In such a situation, it is being speculated whether Iran has conducted its nuclear test. The earthquake occurred in the Aradan city of Semnan province in Iran. Its intensity was 4.5 on the Richter scale. The earthquake occurred at around 10:45 pm local time and its epicentre was at a depth of only 10 kilometers from the ground. The tremors were felt in Tehran which is 110 kilometers away from...
  • Iran's Ex-Deputy Minister Reportedly Jailed in Israel

    11/15/2009 8:15:16 PM PST · by nuconvert · 10 replies · 1,109+ views
    FoxNews ^ | November 15, 2009
    An Iranian former deputy defense minister who has been missing for nearly three years was abducted by Israeli agents and is now being held in Israel, several Iranian news Web sites reported Sunday. Ali Reza Asgari, a retired general who served in Iran's Revolutionary Guard, disappeared while on a private trip to Turkey in December 2006. In March of this year, a former German Defense Ministry official said Asgari had defected and was providing considerable information to the West on Iran's nuclear program.
  • Biden warns Israel not to attack Iran nuclear sites

    10/02/2024 10:34:59 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 118 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | October 2 2024 | Emily Goodin
    President Joe Biden said he does not support Israel striking Iran's nuclear sites in response to its missile attack against its people. ‘The answer is no,’ he told reporters traveling with him.
  • Princeton Faculty Member Brags About Death Threats Against Trump Admin Envoy (Allah akbar?)

    01/09/2022 1:39:35 PM PST · by Conservat1 · 12 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | Jan 9, 2022 | Adam Kredo
    University Middle East expert Hussein Mousavian was a former Iranian official A former Iranian official who is a faculty member at Princeton University recently bragged in an interview about how his hardline government’s death threats against a former top Trump administration official had him and his family "trembling" with fear. Hussein Mousavian, a former member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team who works as a Middle East security and nuclear policy specialist at Princeton University, said in a recent interview that the Iranian regime’s threats to murder Brian Hook, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Iran, have heavily impacted Hook’s family...
  • Zelensky Campaigns for Harris/Walz [semi-satire]

    09/28/2024 3:30:10 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 5 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 29 September 2024 | John Semmens
    This week, as the election campaign enters its last five weeks, Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky jetted into Pennsylvania aboard a US Air Force C-17 to help the Harris/Walz ticket win votes. "I am told that winning this state is a must for the Democrats," Zelensky said. "I am told that I will be visiting a munitions factory where I will autograph some bombs and try to firm up the pro-war vote. Trump is promising to end my country's war with Russia by 'making a deal.' The great American General MacArthur said 'there's no substitute for victory.' I hope to refresh...
  • Oil power UAE completes Arab world’s first nuclear plant

    09/06/2024 4:20:51 AM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 12 replies
    Inquirer via msn ^ | 9.6.24 | Inquirer
    Dubai, United Arab Emirates — The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced the completion of the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant, calling it a “significant step”. Abu Dhabi’s Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant will produce 40 terawatt-hours of electricity annually after its fourth and final reactor has entered commercial operation, the state-owned Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation (ENEC) said in a statement. It will generate 25 percent of the electricity needs of the hot, desert Gulf state, where air-conditioning is ubiquitous — nearly the equivalent of New Zealand’s annual consumption, ENEC said.
  • Satellite images reveal where Russian nukes could be stored in Belarus

    09/05/2024 6:19:00 AM PDT · by hardspunned · 23 replies
    The Japan Times ^ | 5/11/24 | Chistoph Koettl
    A newly added air defense system. A distinctive security checkpoint. And a triple fence around a bunker. These new security features and other upgrades at a munitions depot in central Belarus reveal that Russia is building facilities there that could house nuclear warheads. If Russia does move weapons to this location, it would mark the first time it has stored them outside the country since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia already has nuclear warheads on its own soil that are close to Ukraine and NATO countries, but by basing some in Belarus, Russia appears to be...
  • Iran’s Ayatollah Says ‘No Harm’ in Negotiating Nukes with ‘Enemy’ America

    08/28/2024 11:34:07 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/28/2024 | John Hayward
    Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hinted on Tuesday that he could be open to resuming limited nuclear negotiations with Iran’s great “enemy,” the United States. He also advised civilian government officials not to trust anything the “enemy” says during those negotiations. The Supreme Leader was firm on regarding the U.S. as a deeply distrusted adversary, but said Iran can still “interact with the same enemy in certain situations.” “There is no harm in that, but do not place your hopes in them,” he said. “Do not trust the enemy.” Khamenei, who has absolute power and final say over international...
  • Biden Nuclear Security Official Called for 'Queering Nuclear Weapons'

    08/22/2024 6:37:37 PM PDT · by Salman · 49 replies
    Newsweek via MSN ^ | 2024-08-22 | James Bickerton
    A nuclear policy expert appointed to the Department of Energy under the Biden administration in February 2024 previously co-authored an article entitled "queering nuclear weapons" which argued "queer theory" should be used to inform American nuclear policy. Sneha Nair works as a special assistant at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency responsible for maintaining the safety and security of America's extensive arsenal of nuclear weapons. On Wednesday Beijing said it was "seriously concerned" after President Biden updated America's Nuclear Employment Guidance to focus on the threat from China, according to The New York Times. Nair co-authored a piece titled...