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Montevideo, April 26th 2024 - 09:10 UTC

Tag: nuclear bombs

  • Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 21:22 UTC

    Nagasaki Mayor launches “Never Again!” cry

    Nuclear weapons “exist, so they can be used,” Taue underlined

    Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue and other speakers during Tuesday's ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the second atom bomb dropped on Japanese soil by the United States at the end of World War II insisted that theirs should be the last tragedy ever of that nature.

  • Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 11:22 UTC

    Denuclearization or mutual deterrence in the Korean peninsula?

    Kim persuaded Trump to end the US annual joint military exercises with South Korea, and even got Trump to call them “war games” and “provocative”

    If the Singapore meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un had been a zero-sum game, then Trump definitely lost. But maybe it wasn't. Kim got a meeting with Trump on terms of strict equality right down to the number of flags on display, which is a huge boost for his regime's claim to legitimacy.

  • Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 21:06 UTC

    US disassembles last of Cold War’s most potent nuclear bombs

    B53 was 600 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb (Photo: NNSA)

    The last of the United States' most powerful nuclear bombs — a weapon hundreds of times more destructive than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — is being disassembled nearly fifty years after it was put into service, informed Tuesday the newspaper Texas Star-Telegram.