Pakistan hints at nuking India after cross-border airstrikes roil the white-hot feud
India on Tuesday launched airstrikes across its border with Pakistan in a military escalation after a terror attack in Kashmir left 40
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Nuclear-Armed India and Pakistan Face Off in Renewed Escalation
It’s the biggest escalation between South Asia’s nuclear-armed rivals in decades and with a bitterly contested national election in India just weeks
Top US admiral in Middle East warns of growing Iranian threat
Iran is in possession of improved and dangerous weapons systems that give Tehran the ability to threaten some of the world’s most
Iran’s Space Odyssey Raises Red Flags for Nuclear Community
Khomeini Space Center. The two-hundred-pound satellite, called Payam (message in Farsi), was designed and produced at Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology. According
In Arab world, belief prevails that Trump will recognize Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights
Arab analysts believe that U.S. President Donald Trump will recognize Israel’s sovereignty on the Golan Heights, which was captured during the 1967
Russia’s Arabic Propaganda: What it is, why it matters
INFORMATION MANIPULATION is a key foreign policy tool that Russia utilizes to pursue its anti-Western agenda. Dmitry Kiselyov, one of the Kremlin’s
Saudis Want a U.S. Nuclear Deal. Can They Be Trusted Not to Build a Bomb?
Before Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, was implicated by the C.I.A. in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, American intelligence agencies
Putin’s Anti-Israeli ‘Surge’ in Syria
The Russian Ministry of Defense did not wait long to deliver its promised S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Syria. On the night of
Know Comment: Nowhere, no-time supervision of Iran
The root corruption of the nuclear deal that the Obama administration reached with Iran in July 2015 was not only that Iran
Iran expert: IAEA needs to be able to inspect everywhere
The International Atomic Energy Agency needs to be able to inspect everywhere in Iran, from military bases to suspicious run-down warehouses, INSS
Pakistani nuclear forces, 2018
The Nuclear Notebook is researched and written by Hans M. Kristensen, director of the Nuclear Information Project with the Federation of American
Iran claims it controls Strait of Hormuz, prompting Pompeo denial
A major shipping route located between Oman and Iran where nearly one-third of the world’s sea-traded oil passes through daily may become