Tag: Nuclear Weapons

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. Some personnel news: We’re excited to welcome Sam Skove as FP’s newest staff writer! Sam joins us from Politico, where he covered space, ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at sanctions on Iran’s nuclear activities, Hong Kong wrapping up its landmark national security trial, and accusations of Israel committing genocide in ...

Over the last decade or so, Mohammad Javad Zarif has been the most prominent face of Iranian diplomacy. As foreign minister between 2013 and 2021, Zarif negotiated the Joint Comprehensive ...

Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on Thursday triggered the so-called snapback of U.N. sanctions on Iran, after years of talks to elicit greater cooperation and transparency over Iran’s nuclear ...

Eighty years ago in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, more than 200,000 people were killed in ways that nearly defy imagination: incinerated, burned alive, boiled in rivers, or ...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Monday ordered a rapid buildup of nuclear weapons, ostensibly because recent joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea were an “obvious ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, Putin was greeted by a flyover of an American B-2 strategic bomber. Such ...

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a reprise of two previous summits and one meeting, has said he will reach out to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This sentiment was ...

Israel is likely to launch another war with Iran before December—perhaps even as early as late August. Iran is expecting and preparing for the attack. It played the long game ...

The annual ceremonies in Hiroshima on Aug. 6 and Nagasaki on Aug. 9 are somber yet chilling events. But on the 80th anniversaries of history’s only atomic bombings, Japan’s peace ...