Donald Trump’s ‘nuclear football’, the briefcase which could trigger doomsday, was loaded onto Marine One alongside the President as he was airlifted to hospital for coronavirus treatment. The leader of the western world is always followed by the case – officially called the Presidential Emergency Satchel – and a military aide wherever he goes so … Read more
A tennis court-sized nuclear fusion reactor being developed in the US could be producing electricity within a decade, backers claim. The SPARC nuclear fusion reactor, a joint project involving Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is expected to begin construction on June 21 next year and take three or four years until completion. It is hoped that SPARC … Read more
Threat to 10,000 jobs if the Sizewell C nuclear plant in Suffolk does not go ahead, businesses and unions warn By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 18 September 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 18 September 2020 An artist’s impression of the proposed nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk Up to … Read more
Saudi Arabia may have enough uranium for nuclear fuel and weapons, Chinese report claims Chinese geologists have been helping the kingdom map its uranium reserves Confidential reports show more than 90,000 tonnes of uranium could be mined Saudi Arabia has been open about wanting nuclear self-sufficiency But experts fear this means they could use the … Read more
Doctors have warned that Madrid is walking ‘in slow motion’ towards a repeat of its ‘nuclear bomb’ Covid crisis in March. Spain has recorded an average of more than 10,000 new cases per day over the last week, the worst figures in Europe and the fifth highest infection rate in the world. Nearly a third of those falling … Read more
Hitachi axes plans for North Wales nuclear power plant after struggling to secure government funding By James Salmon Associate City Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 22:10 BST, 15 September 2020 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 15 September 2020 Hitachi is set to ditch plans for a power station in North Wales, in another major setback … Read more
It’s basically the Nixon ‘Madman strategy,’ the Minister explained to me. ‘They want the EU to think they’re crazy enough to go for No Deal, and that will spook them into giving enough concessions that we can strike a deal.’ Perhaps it will. But there’s one major difference between Nixon’s threat to nuke the North … Read more
John Watson, then a Tory MP, knew he had a bit of a battle on his hands. He was addressing his audience about the benefits of nuclear power. Not an easy case to make with so many coal miners filling the chairs in front of him. But he felt pretty confident he could persuade them … Read more
Donald Trump claimed that he was ‘genetically’ capable of understanding nuclear weapons – because his uncle was a physicist. The President told North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that he knew about his nuclear test sites ‘better than any of my people’ because his uncle Dr. John Trump taught at MIT. But Dr. Trump’s expertise was … Read more
President Donald Trump revealed a new nuclear weapons system to Bob Woodward and bragged that he was telling the author something that America’s foreign adversaries had no knowledge of. In an excerpt of his forthcoming book, ‘Rage,’ Woodward reveals the president told him about the system and noted neither Russian President Vladimir Putin nor Chinese … Read more