DefenceTalkTop scientists and security experts moved the “Doomsday Clock” forward on Tuesday to just 90 seconds to midnight — signaling an increased risk to humanity’s survival from the nuclear shadow over the Ukraine conflict and the growing climate crisis. The new timing of the clock set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is closer […]https://www.defencetalk.com/doomsday-clock-moves-closest-ever-to-midnight-79749/

DefenceTalkFormer US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation. “I do not think the world properly knows just how close the India-Pakistan rivalry came to spilling over into a nuclear conflagration in February 2019,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pompeo-says-us-averted-nuclear-war-between-india-pakistan-79741/

DefenceTalkThe UN human rights chief on Thursday slammed Russia’s attack on Ukraine, warning of a “massive impact” on the rights of millions and cautioning that heightened nuclear threat levels showed all of humanity was at risk. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet warned that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched […]https://www.defencetalk.com/all-of-humanity-at-risk-from-nuclear-threat-over-ukraine-un-78251/

DefenceTalkRussia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused Western politicians of fixating on nuclear war, one week after Moscow launched the invasion of Ukraine. “It’s clear that World War Three can only be a nuclear war,” Lavrov said in an online interview with Russian and foreign media. “I would like to point out that it’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-lavrov-accuses-west-of-fixating-on-nuclear-war-78244/

DefenceTalkAfter days of fiery talk of possible military intervention in the North Korea nuclear stand-off, Pentagon officials late last week suddenly found themselves digesting a surprising piece of breaking news. President Donald Trump, in the middle of a working vacation, stood before cameras and said the United States was also mulling options against crisis-hit Venezuela, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-adjusts-to-life-under-unpredictable-commander-in-chief-70292/

DefenceTalkSecretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday, after North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un postponed a threat to fire missiles towards the US territory of Guam, that Washington remains ready for talks. But the top US diplomat said it would be up to Kim when such negotiations would begin, having previously insisted Pyongyang must demonstrate that it […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-says-open-to-talk-if-north-korea-ready-to-disarm-70269/