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China expanding its secret nuclear-linked sites, satellite images show - NYT

Large characters above the entrance reportedly display a slogan associated with President Xi Jinping, “Stay true to the founding cause and always remember our mission,” visible in satellite imagery.

A soldier stands guard as the air and missile defense group displays the HQ-22A missile defense systems during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2025.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the press ahead of his departure from the US on February 12, 2026.

Netanyahu after Trump meeting: US conditions for Iran must include nuclear weapons, MidEast proxies

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a televised message in Tehran, Iran, February 9, 2026. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader.

Could a nuclear Iran start an arms race?

Iranian missiles are displayed in a park in Tehran, Iran, January 31, 2026

US-Iran negotiations could leave Israel vulnerable to attack, experts say - analysis


UN nuclear watchdog back in Iran, no deal yet on inspections

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told Fox News on Tuesday that "the first team of IAEA inspectors is back in Iran," but that the agency was still discussing how to resume inspections.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) logo and Iranian flag is seen in this illustration taken June 16, 2025.

Sa'ar: 'No Palestinian state,' Pahlavi calls on E3 to implement 'snapback' sanctions

IDF conduct operation on former Iranian base in Syria • PMO denies KAN report that Israel, Syria exploring swapping Mt. Dov for Golan Heights • IDF head calls on all to serve amid haredi draft debate

IDF soldiers sit on top of tanks at the Gaza border, August 26, 2025

Iran is prepared for another war with Israel, response will be even stronger, FM Araghchi warns

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called for Arab nations to cut relations with Israel in support of Gaza during an interview with the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with ambassadors in Tehran, July 12, 2025; illustrative.

IAEA director-general says first team of inspectors arrive in Iran, set to restart work

This comes after Iranian leaders met with representatives of the E3 countries, the UK, France, and Germany, in Geneva on Tuesday. 

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi looks on during a doorstep with Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker, Austrian Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler and Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger at the Austrian Chancellery in Vienna, Austria, June 25, 2025.

Trump plans to make Cold War-era plutonium available for nuclear power

Boosting the US power industry is a policy priority for the Trump administration as US electricity demand rises for the first time in two decades on the boom in data centers needed for AI.

US President Donald Trump meets with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (not pictured), in Turnberry, Scotland, Britain, July 27, 2025

Radioactive water leaks from UK nuclear bomb base into sea off Scotland - report

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency warned that up to half of the components at the base were beyond their design life when the leaks began.

Loch Long is frozen over at Arrochar, Scotland, Britain, December 11, 2017.

Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since atomic bomb

On the 80th anniversary of the US's atomic bombing of the western Japanese city of Nagasaki, Mayor Shiro Suzuki called on the world to abolish nuclear weapons.

Attendees pray for the victims on the day of a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city, at Nagasaki's Peace Park in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, August 9, 2025.

July quake appears to have damaged Russian nuclear sub base, NY Times reports

Photos captured by Planet Labs show damage to a floating pier at the Pybachiy submarine base on the Kamchatka Peninsula.

 An aerial view shows the Russian nuclear submarine Dmitry Donskoy moored on the eve of the the Navy Day parade in Kronshtadt, a seaport town in the suburb of St. Petersburg, Russia, July 28, 2017.

Radioactive wasp nest found in US where nuclear components were manufactured

The radiation in the nest was discovered to be 10 times the federal regulation limits, officials said.

A wasp walks on the nest that's built inside a wooden hotel for solitary bees made by the Metropolitan Area of the Aburra Valley (AMVA) in Barbosa, Colombia April 21, 2021.

Trump says he wants to maintain nuclear limits with Russia

It was the first time since taking office that Trump has said he wants to maintain the treaty's limits on strategic nuclear weapons deployments when it expires on February 5.

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attend a G20 summit in Buenos Aires in 2018. Putin probably isn’t losing sleep over Trump’s recent deadline to make peace with Ukraine, says the writer.