WION17d
Iran to Have 10 Nuclear Warheads Ready to Aim at Enemies, Within Months? Report
Iran could be just 6 months away, from having 10 nuclear warheads ready to aim at its enemies. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has increased its stockpile of Uranium ...
Interesting Engineering17d
US resumes nuclear warhead production with first plutonium pit in 35 years
The W87-1 warhead will replace the older W78 warhead, ensuring that the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) leg of the nuclear triad remains safe, secure, and effective. The plutonium pit is ...
Yahoo18d
First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Warhead Produced In The U.S. In 35 Years Is Now “Weapon-Ready”
The W78 warhead is said to have a yield of 335 kilotons. It is unclear what the W87-1’s exact will be, but the original W87 warhead has a reported baseline yield of 300 kilotons. The follow-on ...
Yahoo News18d
First Plutonium Pit For Nuclear Warhead Produced In The U.S. In 35 Years Is Now “Weapon-Ready”
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the completion of the first weapon-ready example of a vital component for the W87-1 warhead. The component, ...
Independent Online19d
'Disgrace to the party': MK Party requests three Mpumalanga members to resign from legislature
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has requested three of its members in the Mpumalanga Legislature to voluntarily resign after bringing the party into "disrepute." The MKP currently has about nine ...
NPR19d
How Iran’s missile strike on Israel appears to have hit some targets
Videos posted to social media and geolocated by NPR and the online investigations group Bellingcat show multiple warheads landing around two Israeli air bases: Nevatim Airbase in the south of the ...
Sky19d
What is Iran's new Fattah missile that state media claims was used against Israel?
Iranian state media claimed the country used its new ballistic Fattah missile in its attack on Israel on Tuesday night. There is some doubt, however. Defence and security analyst Professor Michael ...
Sydney Morning Herald19d
What if one of Iran’s missiles carried a nuclear warhead? That possibility isn’t far off
What if one of those missiles had been tipped with a nuclear warhead — a warhead whose construction Western intelligence agencies, even Mossad, had somehow missed? If nothing else, it would have ...
richest19d
MK Party goes to court to block JSC sitting over Hlophe’s exclusion
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has launched an urgent court bid to interdict the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) sitting on Monday, 7 October after its member of Parliament John Hlophe was ...
Reuters20d
Iranian missile strike on Israel shows capability for greater scale, complexity
Iran has said both missiles have manoeuvring warheads, which can make defence more difficult, and use solid fuel, meaning they can be launched with little warning. "Shorter launch prep means those ...
CNN20d
What are the missiles in Iran’s arsenal and how does Israel counter them?
Ballistic missiles’ trajectories carry them outside or near the limits of Earth’s atmosphere, before the warhead payload separates from the rocket that carried it aloft and plunges back into ...