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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 501

nuclear test

Illustrative: A test of a medium-range nuclear-capable cruise missile, launched from the US Navy-controlled San Nicolas Island, California, on August 18, 2019. (YouTube screen capture)
August 18, 2020, 9:47 pm
US, Russia still at odds over new nuclear arms treaty
Amid talks over inclusion of China in new deal, US negotiator says ‘we do remain far apart on a number of key issues’
By David Rising
Casings identical to those used for the 'Fat Man' and 'Little Boy' atomic bombs are displayed, July 15, 2020, at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History in Albuquerque, New Mexico (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
July 18, 2020, 3:57 pm
Anniversary of world’s 1st atomic test fuels nuclear debate
After 75 years, the test is both revered for the scientific advancements it helped to usher in, and vilified for the moral and diplomatic implications that still linger in its wake
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN
Illustrative: A US nuclear bomb test at the Marshall Islands, 1954. (Wikicommons/US Department of Energy)
May 23, 2020, 11:13 am
Amid Russia and China tensions, US mulls first nuclear test since 1992 — report
Top security agency officials said to hold talks on possible test ahead of negotiations with Beijing and Moscow over weapons treaty
By ToI Staff and Agencies
This is the mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. It left a half-mile wide crater, 10 feet deep at the vent and the sand within the crater had been burned and boiled into a highly radioactive, jade-green, glassy crust. (AP Photo)
December 2, 2019, 8:19 pm
Historians uncover fourth Soviet spy who stole US atomic secrets in WWII
After seven decades, identity of mole finally revealed in a tangled story of cat-and-mouse espionage involving Jewish agents and double-agents working for the Communists and FBI
By Rich Tenorio
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
September 22, 2019, 4:06 pm
Did the Carter administration cover up a 1979 Israeli nuclear test?
Noting Israeli accusations against Iran, Foreign Policy magazine slams ‘humiliating role’ US president allegedly played in hiding purported Israeli test from the world
By ToI Staff
A woman walks past a shelter sign set up on an exit of a subway station in Seoul on September 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je)
September 4, 2017, 11:14 am
Seoul detects signs N. Korea preparing another missile launch
South Korea responds to Pyongyang weapons test with live-fire drill simulating attack on nuclear test site, increases missile defense
By Agencies
South Korean officials watch news broadcasts showing North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un, at the Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul on September 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
September 3, 2017, 1:30 pm
International leaders blast North Korean H-bomb test
South Korea calls for ‘strongest punishment’ against Pyongyang and indicates it will back the redeployment of US tactical nuclear weapons in the peninsula
By Agencies
North Korea's Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Kim In Ryong enters a news conference at the UN on April 17, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
April 17, 2017, 8:43 pm
North Korea ready to react to ‘any mode of war’ from US
Tensions continue to rise as war of words escalates; Pence says ‘the era of strategic patience is over’
By AFP
The explosion of the US's first H-bomb at Enewetak Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, November 1, 1952. (AFP/INTERCONTINENTALE/STR/)
October 5, 2016, 3:16 pm
World court rejects epic Marshalls Islands nuclear case
Judges rule tiny Pacific nation can’t sue Britain, India, Pakistan for not stopping arms race while atomic tests devastated its atolls
By Jan Hennop
A South Korean marine watches a TV screen reporting about North Korea's possible nuclear test at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sep. 9, 2016. (Kim Ju-sung/Yonhap via AP)
September 9, 2016, 6:20 am
North Korea believed to have carried out 5th, most powerful nuke test
Rival South Korea says 10-kiloton bomb was likely detonated underground after unusual seismic activity detected
By Jung Ha-Won
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Dr. Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, in Jerusalem on June 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 1, 2016, 1:29 pm
UN urges Israel to ratify nuclear test ban treaty
Praising regional impact of Iran deal, top official calls on Jerusalem to officially adopt moratorium on atomic testing
By Edith M. Lederer
A vehicle carrying a PAC-3 missile interceptor arrives at a port on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa prefecture, southwestern Japan Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016, intended to fend off the threat of North Korea's missile arsenal. (Koji Harada/Kyodo News via AP)
February 7, 2016, 3:38 am
Seoul: N. Korea fires rocket in covert missile test
Move seen as latest provocation by Pyongyang dictator Kim Jong Un just one month after nuclear test
By Foster Klug
People watch a news report on North Korea's purported first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
January 13, 2016, 12:28 am
Israel joins condemnation of North Korea nuclear test
Foreign ministry says ‘clear message’ should be sent to Pyongyang that its actions are unacceptable
By AFP
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA, left), talks with the committee's ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 7, 2016. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
January 12, 2016, 1:11 pm
Congress pushes North Korea sanctions after bomb test
Despite claims it lacks teeth, lawmakers to vote on bill aimed at starving Pyongyang of funds for controversial weapons program
By Richard Lardner
People watch a news report on North Korea's purported first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)
January 12, 2016, 10:55 am
N. Korea: We don’t threaten, but we’ll wipe out US
International experts continue to dismiss Pyongyang’s claim that it detonated a miniaturized thermonuclear bomb
By AFP
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