North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister denounced calls for denuclearization, describing the country’s nuclear weapons as its “ultimate shield,” state media reported https://t.co/u4I5cZdGOP
1. Trump just signed a landmark nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, paving the way for the Saudis to enrich their own uranium.
Meanwhile, Trump's top foreign policy advisor, Jared Kushner, is being paid tens of millions of dollars anually by the Saudis
That fact was IGNORED in almost all the coverage
Donald Trump described the nuclear agreement Barack Obama signed with Iran in 2015 as “horrible”, “one-sided” and the “worst in history”
But the US president is now proposing a weaker deal - @memphisbarker breaks it down ⤵️
https://t.co/zyJLyvaVBl
BREAKING North Korea is showing a "very serious increase" in its ability to produce nuclear weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says
A lot of misinformation about Tusk's remarks today on Poland and nuclear weapons. Here's what he actually said:
"We will cooperate with our allies, including France, which has made this specific offer, and as our own autonomous capabilities increase, we will also strive to...1/2
Macron lays out France’s new doctrine of nuclear deterrence here at Ile Longue. France will increase its number of warheads, no longer communicate the number, open nuclear exercises to other allies, and include option of stationing nuclear assets in allied countries
Poland has confirmed that it is in talks with France over joining its new nuclear deterrence programme, which would see Paris increase the size of its nuclear arsenal and cooperate with European allies, who would be able to host French nuclear assets https://t.co/iDXCfjE79r
France will increase its number of nuclear warheads from the current level of below 300, French President Emmanuel Macron said. It will be the first time France increases its nuclear arsenal since at least 1992. https://t.co/AnRyofGlEJ
🇨🇳 Arms-control reports by the US state department finds mounting evidence that Beijing is expanding its weapons stockpile
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https://t.co/4kC6WrjGxl
Iran and the United States reached an understanding on Tuesday on main "guiding principles" in talks aimed at resolving their longstanding nuclear dispute, but that does not mean a deal is imminent, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said.
https://t.co/2QweCsAnzv
President @NawrockiKn has called for Poland to seek a nuclear deterrent, saying that it is necessary in the face of an “aggressive, imperial Russia” https://t.co/L9oAshZUEb
With the US under President Donald Trump seen as unreliable when it comes to NATO, Europe has begun to seriously reconsider its nuclear deterrent to a revanchist Russia: Here’s your Evening Briefing https://t.co/l6S1X6Sy84
On this day in 1960, France becomes the fourth country in the world to detonate a nuclear weapon. The 70-kt bomb, codenamed Gerboise Bleue, is set off in the North African desert.