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Workers who developed cancer while building America’s nuclear weapons struggle to make medical claims after Trump cuts

Unless the Trump administration chooses to renew the compensation program former nuclear weapons employees who are hoping to receive assistance with their medical payments will no longer have the opportunity.

The Independent UK

Taiwan court sentences ex-legislator's son for illegal fuel transfers to North Korea

Illegal transfers at sea are one of the few ways North Korea, largely isolated from the international community, can obtain fuel because of strict United Nations sanctions against its nuclear weapons and missile programmes.

Euronews

South Korea-US drills trigger Kim Jong-un to pledge nuclear force expansion

Pyongyang has long denounced the allies’ joint drills as invasion rehearsals and Kim has often used them to justify his own military displays and testing activities aimed at expanding his nuclear weapons programme.

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Call for MoD to investigate serious nuclear incident at Faslane naval base

THE SNP have demanded urgent answers in a letter to the Ministry of Defence after the UK Government confirmed a serious nuclear incident took place…

The National (Scotland)

The ‘third nuclear age’ is a politically motivated label that seeks to justify a renewed arms race

In August 1945 the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people, overwhelmingly civilians. Eighty years on from this slaughter – which the then US army commander and later president Dwight D. Eisenhower called “completely unnecessary” – is an apt…

The Conversation

Putin is floating a new nuclear deal with the US ahead of Trump talks. Here’s why

The move might dissuade Trump from imposing new sanctions on Russia

The Independent UK

Don’t believe the hype about nuclear weapons

Letters: We must continue to challenge claims that nuclear weapons are a ‘necessity’, says Caroline Lucas, while Gerry Weston says they don’t protect us from Russian aggression and Michael Newman says they didn’t end the second world war

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Investigation urged into radioactive leak in Scottish loch and ‘cover-up scandal’

THERE are calls for the UK Government to launch an investigation after radioactive water “leaked into a Scottish lock” from a nuclear weapons…

The National (Scotland)

Radioactive water 'leaked into loch' from nuclear weapons base, investigation reveals

RADIOACTIVE water "leaked into a loch" from a nuclear weapons base after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed ...

The National (Scotland)

As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition?

The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commentator

The Guardian - UK

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show

Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

The Guardian - UK

Nagasaki remembers atomic bomb victims 80 years on with minute of silence

Some 74,000 people were killed in Nagasaki in the US bombing in 1945, three days after Hiroshima. As the town’s mayor, Shiro Suzuki, calls to "stop armed conflicts immediately".

Euronews

Remote IT worker scam involving 90 laptops and stolen identities generated $17 million in illicit revenue allegedly bound for North Korea's nuclear weapons program

A woman faces an eight year prison sentence as a result.

PC Gamer

Public opinion is split as US marks 80th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing

Americans are divided between support and opposition for the US decision to drop an atomic bomb during World War II.

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‘Apocalyptic’ pictures of Gaza’s devastation echo the destruction of the Hiroshima bomb 80 years on

IN FOCUS: Palestinians have been represented for the first time at a memorial for the bomb dropped on Japan, amid warnings the world has not learned the lessons from 80 years ago. Alex Croft reports

The Independent UK

Atomic bombing survivor issues stark warning over current threat on Hiroshima anniversary

An atomic bombing survivor has issued a stark warning over the use of nuclear weapons on the 80th anniversary of the attack on Hiroshima.

The Conversation

Russia’s decision to pull out of nuclear treaty makes the world more dangerous

Russia has announced it will no longer uphold its obligations under the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty, signed by the Soviet Union and the United States in December 1987. The decision has raised questions about the future of nuclear deterrence and the danger of global nuclear proliferation.

The Independent UK

With only one nuclear arms pact left between the US and Russia, a new arms race is possible

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity

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Survivor of the Hiroshima bomb says Trump is ‘a huge mess’ as he gives stark warning to the world

‘Why do these animals called humans like war so much?’ asked Nobel Peace Prize winner and Hiroshima survivor Toshiyuki Mimaki, as he discussed the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons

The National (Scotland)

Scottish activists mark 80 years since atomic bombings with new 'peace garden'

Activists in Glasgow have marked the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings at the opening of a new garden

The National (Scotland)

This is what a nuclear attack on Scotland would look like

TODAY is a grim anniversary. Eighty years ago, the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed an estimated 210,000 people

The Independent UK

Hiroshima mayor warns world is repeating nuclear mistakes: ‘Please witness the reality’

Kazumi Matsui denounces ‘flagrant disregard’ of lessons from tragedies of history on 80th anniversary of nuclear bombing

The Independent UK

Voices: Why are we commemorating Hiroshima’s 80th anniversary with new nuclear weapons?

COMMENT: The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be a reminder of the horrors of nuclear attack – not a chance for Britain to announce it is spending billions on submarine-launched atomic warheads, says Caroline Lucas

Euronews

Hundreds protest nuclear weapons at Hiroshima ceremony

Demonstrators gathered near the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima on Wednesday, despite authorities’ requests to leave, as the city marked the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing.

Al Jazeera

Japan’s Hiroshima marks 80 years since US atomic bombing

Hiroshima’s mayor, Kazumi Matsui, warns of the dangers of rising global militarism.

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