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Britain’s official National Security Advisor, Sir Stephen Lovegrove, has warned that the risk of nuclear escalation is greater today than it was during the Cold War, particularly with respect to China. 

The New York City Emergency Preparedness Department released a bizarre public service announcement Monday instructing city residents on what to do if a nuclear attack were to occur.

A laboratory manufacturing the illegal narcotic ecstasy (MDMA) was discovered on a Belgian NATO base that houses nuclear weapons, with two people arrested in the case, according to prosecutors.

A report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday said China is pursuing a “substantial expansion” of its nuclear arsenal, including the development of new delivery systems and the construction of hundreds of additional missile silos.

American President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea on Friday, eliciting no response from the communist North Korean regime at press time.

In a stunning admission, former Iranian lawmaker Ali Motahari acknowledged the Islamic Republic of Iran intended to develop nuclear weapons from the very start of its nuclear program, while voicing regret the goal was not kept secret enough.

North Korea celebrated the anniversary of the founding of its first military on Monday with a massive military parade featuring “cutting-edge military hardware” and a speech by communist dictator Kim Jong-un in which he warned his soldiers to be “fully prepared” for nuclear war.

Communist North Korea may be rehabilitating the Punggye-ri former nuclear test site, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Friday, citing satellite images showing activity at the location.

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful and influential sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, threatened to use nuclear weapons against South Korea on Tuesday after South Korean Defense Minister Suh Wook discussed his military’s ability to “accurately and swiftly” strike targets in the North.

Communist dictator Kim Jong-un of North Korea applauded his military leaders and scientists, state media reported on Monday, for developing “overwhelming military power that cannot be stopped by anyone” during a photo session to commemorate the launch of a purported intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

President Joe Biden is trying to protect Ukraine from further Russian escalation by publicly expanding policy justifications for a U.S. nuclear attack, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. 

Activists and advocates in D.C. are chattering about the possibility of nuclear war in Ukraine. 

Americans view various types of terrorism, nuclear weapons, and China as “critical threats” to the United States, according to a Gallup poll.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday that Russia will continue its “military operation” in Ukraine even if a peace deal is made, until the process of “demilitarization” and “de-Nazification” is completed to Moscow’s satisfaction and Ukraine is stripped of weapons of mass destruction – including chemical and biological weapons he accused the United States of developing on Ukrainian soil.

NPR suggested that if the U.S. lifting sanctions on Iran’s oil operations it could help lessen the cost of energy for U.S. consumers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Tuesday that he was reviewing a request from his diplomats to cut all ties to Russia in response to Russian leader Vladimir Putin recognizing Russian proxies in the country as sovereign states and ordering “peacekeeping” troops into Ukraine.

Pope Francis railed against arms dealing Monday, insisting that “those who possess weapons will eventually use them.”

VIENNA — Negotiators gathered in Vienna on Monday to resume talks over reviving Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, with hopes of quick progress muted after the arrival of a hard-line new government in Tehran led to a more than five-month hiatus.

The head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said Iran is very close to a nuclear weapon, but the U.S. has options to stop them if diplomacy fails.

As Iran reportedly continues its pursuit of nuclear weapons, Iranian political analyst Emad Abshenas, editor-in-chief of the Iran Diplomatic, warned last week that the Islamic republic currently has the capability of constructing a nuclear bomb, with its final assembly requiring only minutes to hours to complete.

Chinese state media on Thursday denounced a new Pentagon report on China’s growing nuclear arsenal as “speculative,” without actually denying anything in the report.

Nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan died in a Pakistani military hospital on Sunday at the age of 85, apparently a victim of the Wuhan coronavirus or one of its comorbidities. He was celebrated by Prime Minister Imran Khan as a “national hero” for turning Pakistan into a “nuclear weapon state.” Left unmentioned in the PM’s eulogy was AQ Khan’s role as a dangerous proliferator who sold nuclear secrets to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.

Pope Francis warned Saturday of “the worsening of multiple converging political and environmental crises,” singling out “hunger, climate, nuclear weapons.”

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday warned Iran was only two months away from obtaining a nuclear bomb, and called on the world to find a “Plan B” to stop it in time.

Erik Prince said Taiwan should procure nuclear weapons as a deterrence against China following the Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.

The Iranian regime on Sunday refused to provide data from its nuclear sites to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), declaring that it would no longer cooperate with the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency after its temporary monitoring agreement expired last Thursday.

China’s nuclear arsenal increased from 320 weapons in 2020 to 350 in 2021, according to a report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director-General Rafael Grossi told his organization’s board of governors on Monday that North Korea’s recent nuclear activities are a “cause for serious concern.”

The editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times, its most belligerent English-language state newspaper, demanded on Thursday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “rapidly increase the number of commissioned nuclear warheads” in response to an allegedly growing threat of war from the United States.

Iran made several attempts in 2020 to obtain technology needed to develop weapons of mass destruction and has continued its pursuit of atomic weapons, a Dutch intelligence report said.

The governments of China and Russia, which appear to be taking the lead in talks between Iran and the remaining partners in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, expressed optimism after talks concluded on Friday for the week that progress had occurred.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Israel would not be bound by a renegotiated nuclear deal with Iran that would see the Islamic Republic obtaining a bomb in a few years, and reiterated the Jewish State would do whatever it took to protect itself from regimes seeking its destruction.

The government of Iran denied it would engage the United States in talks on Tuesday after the administration of President Joe Biden confirmed on Monday that it would send an envoy to Vienna, Austria, where the remaining signatories of the Iran nuclear deal are scheduled to discuss a path forward.

Scientists from at least thirty-three UK universities have allegedly worked with researchers in China on the development of nuclear weapons.

A report prepared by independent sanctions monitors for the United Nations and obtained by Reuters on Monday found North Korea raked in about $300 million in 2020 with cybercrimes around the world and poured the money into its illegal nuclear missile program.