“The bizarre situation is a chilling reminder why it is so dangerous with Trump’s finger on the nuclear button,” said one nuclear policy expert. In an ominous post Friday afternoon, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he had “ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions” following a provocation by a top Russian security official. […]
An expert at the Federation of American Scientists warned that “radioactive fallout would be intense” if the U.S. deployed a penetrator nuke. The White House said Thursday that President Donald Trump has not ruled out dropping a nuclear weapon on Iran as he considers options for joining Israel’s escalating and increasingly deadly war. An unnamed Trump administration […]
“It’s such a terrible precedent that could drive states to determine that the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty no longer benefits their security,” one expert warned during a virtual event on the conflict. Experts said Monday during a webinar on the escalating Mideast crisis that U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities—which were ostensibly under […]
Despite U.S. intelligence once again finding Iran is not currently developing nukes, the president is trying to force Tehran into a nuclear deal after unilaterally abrogating an existing one in 2018. Iran’s military has reportedly readied ballistic missiles for possible launch against U.S. bases in the Middle East after President Donald Trump renewed his threat to wage […]