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US President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos via teleconference on Thursday, just days after taking office. He used his speech to promise a “revolution of common sense,” telling the audience of business leaders, policymakers, academics and innovators that he was acting “with unprecedented speed” to …

Nuclear weapons may be the best means of protecting the Earth from asteroids, according to scientists from China’s deep space exploration program. In a paper published this month in the Chinese journal SCIENTIA SINICA Technologica, the team of researchers warned that despite recent developments in near-Earth object detection technologies, inaccuracies …

The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has caught fire after being shelled by Ukrainian forces, the governor of Russia’s Zaporozhye Region, Evgeny Balitsky, announced on Sunday. The fire is under control, the official added. The fire broke out following a Ukrainian attack on the nearby city of Energodar on Sunday …

France must open a debate on building up a pan-European defense capability, to include rethinking its own nuclear potential, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking to a group of young people at the European School in Strasbourg on Friday, Macron stressed that while France is already protected by NATO, …

Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons amid the stand-off with Russia over Ukraine, President Andrzej Duda has said. In an interview with the Polish daily Fakt on Monday, the leader acknowledged that the issue of bringing US nukes to his country, much closer to Russian territory, “has been …

If Tehran responds to the Damascus embassy attack by bombing Israel, West Jerusalem will launch strikes against the Iranian nuclear program, a London-based Arabic outlet has reported citing an anonymous Western security official. Two generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force and several other officers were killed …

Multiple Ukrainian explosive-laden drones targeted the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on Sunday. Several locations across the facility were hit, with at least three employees injured in the attack, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom said in a statement on Sunday. The nuclear power station, Europe’s largest, came under Moscow’s control in …

If the US resumes nuclear testing, Russia may consider doing the same, President Vladimir Putin has said in an extensive interview with journalist Dmitry Kiselyov, set to be aired by Russia 1 TV and RIA Novosti on Wednesday. Answering a question about tactical nuclear arms, Putin stressed that weapons of mass …

In order to assess the professionalism of any expert, their initial statements and forecasts must be compared with the actual course of events.  In this sense, it’s interesting that none of the predictions made by mainstream Western experts regarding the Ukraine conflict have come true – either in military, political, …

Russian President Vladimir Putin has addressed the Federal Assembly, the country’s national legislature, detailing plans for the future development of the nation as well as its strategic goals. His speech, which set a duration record, comes just two weeks ahead of the country’s presidential election, in which Putin is seeking …