Topic: nuclear war

November 26, 2016
7:44 am

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the 6th Session of the Cuban Parliament at the Conventions Palace in Havana on December 22, 2005. (AFP PHOTO/Antonio LEVI)

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro dies at 90

Rebel chief who took power at 32 in 1959, becoming youngest leader in Latin America, handed over half-century later to brother Raul

By Michael Weissenstein and Peter Orsi

March 26, 2016
5:06 pm

A North Korean propaganda video shows nuclear attack on Washington, DC (YouTube screenshot)

North Korean video shows nuke attack on Washington

Pyongyang ramps up threats over tensions with US and South, which it warns of a ‘merciless military strike’

By AFP

September 18, 2015
10:31 pm

Former Soviet missile defense forces officer Stanislav Petrov poses for a photo at his home in Fryazino, Moscow region, Russia. On Sept. 26, 1983, despite the data coming in from the Soviet Union’s early-warning satellites over the United States, Petrov, a Soviet military officer, decided to consider it a false alarm. If he had decided otherwise, the Soviet leadership could have responded by ordering a retaliatory nuclear strike on the United States. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

32 years ago, this man saved the world

On September 26, 1983, Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov made a decision widely credited with averting a nuclear war. A movie that tells the story opened Friday in the US

By Lynn Berry

June 7, 2015
9:56 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 (AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev/Presidential Press Service, File)

Amid tensions with Russia, US may move its nukes to British soil

From the Web Analysts warn of ‘new cold-war’-style arms race that could feature showdown between Washington and Moscow, The Telegraph reports

April 27, 2015
7:46 am

People, including survivors of the nuclear bombings in Japan in 1945, front, participate in an anti-nuclear rally in Union Square in New York, Sunday, April 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

As nuclear powers meet, NYC rally demands end to weapons

Activists urge action to rid world of estimated 16,000 nuclear weapons currently held by world powers

By Cara Anna

March 22, 2015
9:57 pm

Illustrative photo of three Danish Royal Navy vessels (screen capture: YouTube)

Russia threatens to nuke Danish ships

Envoy offers harsh warning to Scandinavian country currently mulling NATO membership

By JAN M. OLSEN

March 15, 2015
10:16 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin at his annual holiday news conference in Moscow, Russia, on December 18, 2014 (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Putin: Russia was set to raise nuclear alert over Crimea last year

Amid speculation on the president’s whereabouts, a new documentary shows drastic measure taken by Moscow

By Jim Heintz

March 11, 2015
3:32 am

An Israel National News opinion piece calls for the nuclear destruction of Iran and Germany. (Photo credit: public domain)

Op-ed calls on Israel to nuke Germany, Iran

’20-30 nuclear bombs will assure the job gets done,’ opinion piece on right-wing Israel National News site says

By Times of Israel staff

March 4, 2015
5:34 pm

Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)

Israeli radiation disease treatment passes major hurdle

The NIH is relying on Pluristem’s placenta-based stem cell treatment as a worst-case insurance policy

By David Shamah

December 7, 2014
6:00 am

A view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor (Youtube screen capture)

Iran rejects US claims it made concessions for talks extension

Nuclear spokesman says there are no new conditions, despite AP report; source says no freeze on centrifuge machine tests

By Lazar Berman

December 5, 2014
11:11 pm

A view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor (Youtube screen capture)

US officials: Iran made serious concessions for talks extension

According to new White House document, Tehran agreed to substantial limits on uranium enrichment, increased inspections

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee

October 27, 2014
6:57 pm

Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)

Israeli cells could save US from nuclear health disaster

Pluristem’s off-the-shelf placenta-based cell therapies are being tested by a top US agency – just in case

By David Shamah

May 19, 2014
9:46 pm

A frame from an Iranian animated film showing Israeli planes poised to attack Iran with nuclear weapons. (screen capture, YouTube)

Persian film shows nuke war with Israel

Video titled ‘Point of No Return’ and peppered with Islamic themes shows Iran ’emptying’ Haifa, Tel Aviv of population

By Yifa Yaakov

March 17, 2014
5:04 pm

A graphic rendition on Russian TV of a nuclear attack on the US (screen capture: YouTube)

State TV says Russia could turn US to ‘radioactive ash’

Influential anchor presents image of a gigantic mushroom cloud, says Americans consider Putin ‘a stronger leader than Obama’

By AFP

December 1, 2013
5:29 am

A 14-kiloton atomic explosion, from a 1951 US nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site (illustrative photo: US/Nevada Site Office Photo Library)

For years, US nuke code was 00000000

Precious little stood between American servicemen and a third world war, report says

By Times of Israel staff

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