Us Nuclear Policy

US adds 6 Pakistani firms to 'unsafeguarded' nuclear proliferation list

The United States has placed six Pakistani companies on its entity list for missile proliferation and unsafe-guarded nuclear activity

Plutonium cores' review at US nuclear lab 'sham' process: Watchdog groups

The US government is planning to review the environmental effects of operations at one of the nation's prominent nuclear weapons laboratories, but its notice issued Friday leaves out federal goals to ramp up production of plutonium cores used in the nation's nuclear arsenal. The National Nuclear Security Administration said the review being done to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act will look at the potential environmental effects of alternatives for operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the next 15 years. That work includes preventing the spread and use of nuclear weapons worldwide and other projects related to national security and global stability, the notice said. Watchdog groups contend that regardless of the review, the NNSA will march ahead with its production plans for plutonium cores at Los Alamos. The northern New Mexico lab part of the top secret Manhattan Project during World War II and the birthplace of the atomic bomb is one of two sites

EU chief denounces 'lack of loyalty' by US over submarine row

The bloc's foreign ministers "expressed clear solidarity with France," Borrell said

Biden to push for less US reliance on nukes for defence as President

Trump did, however, add two weapon types and beef up the budget for a years-long overhaul of the nuclear arsenal - an overhaul that Biden sees as excessive

Iran says US nuclear policy brings world 'closer to annihilation'

Zarif said the same impulse was driving the United States to undermine the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, which President Donald Trump has demanded be renegotiated