Nuclear deterrence "cannot save humanity," a senior member of a group of hibakusha atomic bomb survivors said in a video speech at a meeting of scientists in Chicago on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/17/japan/hidankyo-nuke-weapons-us-speech/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #nihonhidankyo #masakowada
France and the U.K. have agreed to coordinate their nuclear forces more closely in response to growing security concerns, signaling both deeper European defense cooperation and unease about the future U.S. role. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/16/world/france-uk-nuclear-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #emmanuelmacron #keirstarmer #uk #france #us #russia #defense #nuclearweapons #nato
Obliterating Tehran’s threat would require an operation on the scale of the 2003 Iraq invasion. And we all know how that ended. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/14/world/ending-irans-nuclear-program/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #us #israel #israeliranwar #nuclearweapons #iraq #defense
A total of 124 countries and regions, as well as the European Union, are currently scheduled to attend the Aug. 6 peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima this year, the city has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/12/japan/hiroshima-peace-ceremony-attendees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #hiroshima #anniversaries #wwii #history #nuclearweapons
China will sign into a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, according to Malaysia's foreign minister. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/10/asia-pacific/politics/malaysia-china-southeast-asia-nuclear-treaty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #malaysia #china #southeastasia #nuclearweapons #asean
Iran has officially suspended its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog, a move the United States described as "unacceptable." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/03/world/politics/iran-un-nuclear-israel-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #nuclearweapons #un #us #iaea #israel#rafaelgrossi #masoudpezeshkian
The Pentagon is now saying that the U.S. strikes conducted 10 days ago has degraded Iran's nuclear program by up to two years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/03/world/iran-nuclear-two-years-pentagon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #middleeast #nuclearweapons #iran #us
States seek nuclear weapons out of insecurity or ambition, and the use of force tends to harden their resolve instead of preventing their pursuit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/02/world/nuclear-proliferation-cannot-be-bombed-away/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iaea #nuclearumbrella #newstart #nuclearweapons #israel #nonproliferation #iran
The number of hibakusha survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost 80 years ago has fallen below 100,000 for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/hibakusha-number-drop/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #atomicbombings #us #wardead #nuclearweapons #hiroshima #nagasaki
Ahead of the 80th anniversary next month, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons launched an online memorial for children who died in the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/online-memorial-nagasaki-hiroshima/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nobelprize #ican #us #wwii #nuclearweapons #atomicbombings #wardead #nagasaki #hiroshima
The bombing of Iranian nuclear sites creates a conundrum for U.N. inspectors: are Iran's uranium stocks buried beneath the rubble or were they secretly hidden away? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/30/world/us-iran-nuclear-sites-missing-uranium/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #middleeast #israel #iran #nuclearweapons #uranium #iaea#rafaelgrossi
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium "in a matter of months," despite damage to several nuclear facilities from U.S. and Israeli attacks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/29/world/iran-enrich-uranium-iaea-months/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #iaea #iran #nuclearweapons #us #israel #donaldtrump#rafaelgrossi #usmilitary
Military strikes might slow down a nuclear program, but they cannot impose long-term restraint — especially when they are carried out by powers that flout the very rules they claim to be enforcing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/27/world/iranian-bomb-now-more-likely/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #nuclearweapons #israel #iaea #donaldtrump #us #defense #middleeast
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he would “get the conflict solved with North Korea,” while also saying that such a conflict "wouldn't involve us.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/28/asia-pacific/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #northkorea #us #southkorea #nuclearweapons #kimjongun #donaldtrump #usmilitary #defense #missiles
U.S. President Donald Trump sharply criticized Iran's supreme leader on Friday, dropped plans to lift sanctions on Iran and said he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran is enriching uranium to worrisome levels. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/28/world/politics/trump-iran-bombing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #iran #us #donaldtrump #nuclearweapons #alikhamenei #middleeast
Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites may have delayed, but not destroyed, its program — and only diplomacy, not force, offers a sustainable path to prevent a wider war. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/06/27/iran-diplomacy-begins/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #donaldtrump #iran #us #nuclearweapons #internationalatomicenergyagency #defense #israel
U.S. President Donald Trump compared the impact of American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the end of World War II on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/world/politics/us-iran-hiroshima-trump-intelligence/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #hiroshima #nagasaki #nuclearweapons #us #donaldtrump #iran #wwii
Trump’s strike on Iran has reached a fragile ceasefire, but without diplomacy, the conflict risks becoming an unwinnable, prolonged war — the kind he once vowed to avoid. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/25/world/trump-abandons-america-first/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #israel #us #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu #iran #nuclearweapons
The Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities delivered a short-term win, but lasting peace is unlikely, and without renewed diplomacy, the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran remains. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/25/world/no-one-and-done-on-iran/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #israel #us #donaldtrump #benjaminnetanyahu #iran #nuclearweapons
Britain will reintroduce fighter jets capable of carrying atomic weapons to support NATO's nuclear mission, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office said, as he prepares for a Nato summit Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/25/world/politics/uk-nuclear-capable-aircraft-nato/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uk #defense #nuclearweapons #nato#aukus