North Korea continued nuclear and missile programmes in 2020 thanks to cyber hacking money, UN says

North Korea continued its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes throughout 2020 in violation of international sanctions and funded them with £220m ($300m) stolen through cyber hacks, according to a confidential United Nations report.  Kim Jong-un‘s regime ‘produced fissile material, maintained nuclear facilities and upgraded its ballistic missile infrastructure’ while continuing to seek material and technology … Read more

Welsh Government bids for Hitachi nuclear site

Welsh Government in talks to buy Horizon nuclear power plant site from Hitachi in last-ditch effort to secure future of project By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 7 February 2021 | Updated: 21:50 GMT, 7 February 2021 The Welsh Government is in talks to buy the Horizon nuclear power plant site … Read more

Nuclear war with China or Russia ‘a possibility’ says US Navy admiral

Nuclear war between the United States and Russia or China is ‘a real possibility’ because Moscow and Beijing are ‘aggressively challenging’ world peace ‘in ways not seen since the Cold War,’ a four-star admiral warns. Admiral Charles A. Richard, who heads the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), which oversees America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, expressed alarm … Read more

Hinkley Point nuclear plant to be delayed and cost £500m more

Hinkley Point nuclear plant to be delayed and cost £500m more than expected By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 22:50 GMT, 27 January 2021 Hinkley Point C – the nuclear power station being built in Somerset – is set to be delayed, and costs are likely … Read more

Joe Biden offers Vladimir Putin a five-year extension on last-remaining nuclear weapons treaty

Joe Biden offers Vladimir Putin a five-year extension on last-remaining treaty limiting nuclear weapons  NEW Start treaty limits Russia and U.S. nuclear weapons to 1,550 deployed warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers It expires on February 5 and Trump opposed extending it, saying he wanted China in a three-way limitation treaty But Russia opposed move  … Read more

Armed police guarding nuclear bomb factory lose 1,000 bullets which fell out the back of MOD van

Armed police guarding nuclear bomb factory lose 1,000 bullets which fell out of the back of an MOD van while driving down a 60mph road Around 1,000 rounds of live ammunition fell off back of a MoD van in Berkshire   9mm bullets rolled from the unmarked vehicle Monday whilst being transported  Passerby alerted police after spotting spill … Read more

Donald Trump causes logistical nightmare for nuclear codes by leaving Washington early

Donald Trump causes logistical nightmare for handover of nuclear codes by leaving Washington early with the ‘football’ before Joe Biden’s inauguration Donald Trump is expected to leave Washington at around 8am on Wednesday He will, as president, take the nuclear football with him, carried by an aide Normally the football is transferred from one aide … Read more

Iran ‘starts building key component of nuclear bombs’

Iran has started building a key component of nuclear bombs, officials from the Middle Eastern country have told United Nations atomic agency.  The country has announced plans to begin manufacturing uranium metal, which is used to make nuclear cores, amid heightened tensions with the US.  It comes as Iran fired cruise missiles as part of a naval … Read more

Kim Jong Un threatens to boost North Korea’s ‘nuclear war deterrence’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost his country’s nuclear arsenal in his closing address to a top ruling party meeting just days before Joe Biden takes office as US president.   Kim is looking to grab the attention of the incoming Biden administration, with his country more isolated than ever after closing its borders … Read more

Get serious on nuclear plans, Kwasi Kwarteng told

New Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng must ‘get his skates on’ and make 2021 the year Government finally commits to building nuclear projects Kwarteng has been urged to decide quickly – as the UK faces the threat of blackouts in the early 2030s  Ministers are mulling plans to allow EDF to build the Sizewell C power … Read more