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SHARE US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has hailed the confirmation of Iran Special Envoy Robert Malley, who stepped into the role on January 28. In a tweet Sunday, Mr Blinken said Mr Malley was "off to a great start," despite a looming escalation in the nuclear crisis. Pleased to see Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley off to a great start at the @StateDept. Principled diplomacy is the best path to ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. — Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinke...

Diplomats in the US and EU are scrambling to find a way out of the current impasse

South Korea’s defense minister suggests return of tactical US nuclear weaponsby wpjljron Monday, September 4th, 2017.South Korea’s defense minister suggests return of tactical US nuclear weaponsSEOUL — South Korea’s defense minister on Monday said it was worth reviewing the redeployment of American tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula to guard against the North, a step that analysts warn would sharply increase the risk of an accidental conflict. As concern over Korea deepe...

Other items including a stuffed pheasant were seen being loaded into cars

A broken chain The president’s authority is ebbing, but he still controls the nuclear codes WhatsApp IN THE NORMAL course of things, army chiefs in democracies are supposed to keep a low profile. General Mark Milley, chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff—the country’s top military officer and adviser to the president—has had no such luck. On January 6th, as America’s Capitol was ransacked by supporters of President Donald Trump, General Milley received frantic text messages fr...

30 Dec 2020 President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he has nominated three former senior Obama administration officials for top positions at the Pentagon, prompting praise from the foreign policy establishment. “Today, President-elect Joe Biden announced his nomination of Dr. Kathleen Hicks as the Deputy Secretary of Defense and Dr. Colin Kahl as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,” the Biden transition team said in a statement. Biden said in a statement: Dr. Kath Hicks and Dr....

In USA’s economic and health crisis – nuclear weapons spending is booming Roughly 50,000 Americans are now involved in making nuclear warheads at eight principal sites stretching from California to South Carolina. And the three principal U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories — located in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. — have said they are adding thousands of new workers at a time when the overall federal workforce is shrinking. “the insane idea that after a pand...

While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms

Roughly 50,000 Americans are now involved in making nuclear warheads at eight principal sites stretching from California to South Carolina. And the three principal U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories — located in Los Alamos and Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif. — have said they are adding thousands of new workers at a time when the overall…

While the country has been preoccupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline and the election, President Trump’s administration quietly and steadily steered America’s nuclear weapons industry to its largest expansion since the end of the Cold War, increasing spending on such arms by billions of dollars with bipartisan congressional support. Overall, the budget for making and maintaining nuclear warheads has risen more than 50% since Trump was elected in 2016, substantially outpacing ...