SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Monday test-fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, the country’s neighbors said, as speculation swirled that it could soon launch a banned satellite into orbit. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons launched from the North’s capital region flew about 300 kilometers (185 miles) […]
A search for weapons in Ibillin, a town in northern Israel, revealed a far more valuable cache. Border police officers came across a collection of unregistered antiquities while conducting a weapons search at a suspect’s home in March. The officers from the Border Police and Northern District Police were searching homes in Ibillin as part […]
Over three dozen House Democrats, including former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, signed a letter Friday pressing the Biden administration to stop sending weapons to Israel following a drone strike that left seven aid workers dead in Gaza. The letter, also signed by Reps. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, James McGovern of Massachusetts, and Jan […]
The war between Israel and Hamas has revealed extensive Chinese support for Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups that the U.S. and Israel consider terrorist organizations, according to strategic analyst Guermantes Lailari. Mr. Lailari, in a report published by the Jewish Policy Center, said that the Israel Defense Forces uncovered large caches of Chinese-made weapons, […]
China is showing no signs of slowing the furious pace of its program to develop nuclear weapons delivery systems, a sign that Beijing is shifting away from a strategy of minimum deterrence, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command told Congress on Thursday. Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton told the Senate Armed Services Committee that […]
NEWS AND ANALYSIS: China is advancing its domestic, dual-use biological research capabilities with applications for the People’s Liberation Army germ warfare programs, according to an open-source intelligence report. Recent virology studies “demonstrate that China is now able to operate its own dual-use virology research agenda on-shore and without international inputs or considerations,” according to a […]
Wildfires raging through the Texas panhandle caused a nuclear weapons facility to pause operations amid evacuations and a disaster declaration from Gov. Greg Abbott that covered 60 counties. Pantex, where most of America’s nuclear weapons are assembled or disassembled, shut down Tuesday night due to the fires, according to CBS. The facility reopened on Wednesday. […]
CANADIAN, Texas — Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fueled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties as the largest fire burned nearly 400 […]
An alleged leader of Japan’s Yakuza gang was arraigned in a Manhattan federal court Thursday on charges of trying to sell weapons-grade nuclear materials to Iran, though the suspect’s ties to the international crime syndicate are being questioned by researchers who track the gang. Federal prosecutors accused Takeshi Ebisawa, 60, of trying to coordinate the […]
It’s not exactly a surprise: The threat posed by anti-satellite weapons has been steadily approaching, in plain view of everyone, for decades. “Soviet ASAT capabilities threaten U.S. military capabilities to some extent now and potentially to a much greater extent in the future,” researchers with the congressional Office of Technology Assessment wrote in a report […]
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