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Protest over nuke development in U.S.

Protesters lie down near the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federal research lab developing nuclear warheads, in Livermore, California, on Aug. 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan's Hiroshima city.

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Illustration - Loire Valley

FRANCE - LOIRE VALLEY - INDRE ET LOIRE (37) - CASTLE OF LANGEAIS : HALL OF THE PREUX. ALL DRESSED IN RED AND ADORNED WITH A HERRINGBONE ARCH WITH OAK WARHEADS, IT TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE SEQUEL OF THE NINE PRINCES, A UNIQUE SET IN FRANCE OF SEVEN TAPESTRIES (IT LACKS THOSE OF JUDAS MACCHABEE AND CHARLEMAGNE) MADE AND WOVEN BETWEEN 1520 AND 1540 IN AUBUSSON AND FELLETIN (CREUSE). THE NINE PRINCES ARE HECTOR, ALEXANDER, CAESAR, JOSHUA, JUDAS MACCABE, DAVID, CHARLEMAGNE, KING ARTHUR AND GODEFROY DE BOUILLON. IN THE SIXTEENTH, THE "NINE PRIESTS" ARE A HOT TOPIC. TODAY, WE FIND THEM IN PLAYING CARDS, WITH THE SQUARE OF KINGS (ALEXANDER, DAVID, CAESAR, CHARLEMAGNE). Photo by Stephane Compoint/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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DPRK-MOBILE WARHEADS-SEPARATION-GUIDANCE CONTROL-TEST

(240627) -- PYONGYANG, June 27, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo provided by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows that a missile is launched in a mobile warheads separation and guidance control test on June 26, 2024. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) successfully conducted on Wednesday the separation and guidance control test of individual mobile warheads, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Thursday. (KCNA/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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US Seizes Iranian-Made Missiles

Handout photo - U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weapons bound for Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants in a raid last week where two service members went missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The SEALs boarded a traditional dhow sailing vessel near the coast of Somalia in international waters of the Arabian Sea, seizing Iranian-made ballistic missile and cruise missile components, including propulsion, guidance, and warheads for Houthi medium range ballistic missiles and anti-ship cruise missiles, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command or CENTCOM, which oversees military operations in the Middle East. Photo by U.S. Central Command via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Russia fires missiles at mock target in Sea of Japan

STORY: Russia fires missiles at mock target in Sea of Japan DATELINE: March 28, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:43 LOCATION: VLADIVOSTOK, Russia CATEGORY: MILITARY SHOTLIST: 1. Russia Navy ships launching Moskit hypersonic anti-ship missiles (source: Russian Defense Ministry) STORYLINE: Russia's navy has fired supersonic anti-ship missiles at a mock target in the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. "In the waters of the Sea of Japan, missile ships of the Pacific Fleet fired Moskit cruise missiles at a mock enemy sea target," the ministry said in a statement published on its official site. The target, located at a distance of about 100 km, was successfully hit by a direct hit from two Moskit cruise missiles. The Moskit missile is a medium-range supersonic ramjet powered cruise missile that can carry conventional and nuclear warheads, capable of destroying a ship within a range of up to 120 km. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Vladivostok, Russia. (XHTV)

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U.N. nuke ban treaty takes effect

NAGASAKI, Japan, Jan. 22 Kyodo - Participants deflate balloons, in a symbolic destruction of nuclear warheads, during an event in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 22, 2021, to celebrate the coming into effect of a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons.

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U.S. had 4,804 nuclear warheads as of Sept. 2013

NEW YORK, the United States - Rose Gottemoeller, U.S. under secretary of state for arms control and international security, speaks at the Third Meeting of the Preparatory Committee for the 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York on April 29, 2014. She said the U.S. had 4,804 nuclear warheads stockpiled of as of September, 2013.

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Draft proposes cutting number of warheads to less than 1,000

TOKYO, Japan - Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans (L) and former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguwi, who co-chair the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, hold a joint news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2009. The commission, which was established at the initiative of Australia and Japan, will hold its final meeting in Hiroshima from Oct. 18 to 20.

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Globe with 'nuke warhead' bars

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Visitors view the Nuclear Globe with missile-like yellow bars sticking out of its surface at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum on July 15. The ''missiles'' indicate the number of nuclear warheads deployed for real operations in the world. ''Do we really have that many?'' a visitor was overheard saying.

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Ozawa warns about China, says Japan could easily go nuclear

FUKUOKA, Japan - Opposition Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa gives a lecture in Fukuoka on April 6. Ozawa said it would be a simple matter for Japan to produce nuclear warheads and surpass China's military power, while warning that ''China is applying itself to expansion of military power.''

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

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Forum urges U.S., Russia to cut nuke weapons to 1,000

TOKYO, Japan - A Japan-initiated international forum of experts on nuclear disarmament adopts at the end of its three-day session on July 25 a proposal urging the United States and Russia to reduce the number of their strategic nuclear weapons to 1,000 warheads each. The photo shows Yasushi Akashi (R), the forum's co-chairman, meeting the press after the end of the conference at a Tokyo hotel.

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Countries with largest nuclear arsenals should reduce warheads first: Chinese official

STORY: Countries with largest nuclear arsenals should reduce warheads first: Chinese official DATELINE: Aug. 3, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:38 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. wide shot of UN GA Hall 2. wide shot of head of the Chinese delegation, also the director-general of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Fu Cong walking to rostrum 3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese/English interpretation): FU CONG, Head of the Chinese Delegation and Director-General of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry 4. med shot of UN GA Hall STORYLINE: The countries with the largest nuclear arsenals should further conduct a significant and substantive reduction in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable, irreversible and legally binding manner, said a Chinese disarmament official on Tuesday. The principles of "maintaining global strategic stability" and "undiminished security for all" should be followed in the practices of nuclear disarmament, Fu Cong told the 10th Rev

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Ozawa warns about China, says Japan could easily go nuclear

FUKUOKA, Japan - Opposition Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa gives a lecture in Fukuoka on April 6. Ozawa said it would be a simple matter for Japan to produce nuclear warheads and surpass China's military power, while warning that ''China is applying itself to expansion of military power.''

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Nagasaki Univ. estimates 15,700 nuke warheads remain in world

Akira Tomizuka, an associate professor at Nagasaki University's Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, stands in front of posters showing data on nuclear warheads around the world on June 22, 2015, in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan. The center has recently estimated that there are now about 15,700 warheads remaining in nine countries in the world. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan on alert after report on N. Korean nuke-tipped missile threat

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga takes questions during a press briefing in Tokyo on Aug. 9, 2017. The top government spokesman said Japan is continuing to gather and analyze information "with grave concern," following an overnight news report that North Korea can now arm its missiles with miniaturized nuclear warheads. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. nuke ban treaty takes effect

Participants deflate balloons, in a symbolic destruction of nuclear warheads, during an event in Nagasaki, southwestern Japan, on Jan. 22, 2021, to celebrate the coming into effect of a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons.

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World's nuclear warheads count

Nagasaki University's Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition tells a press conference in the southwestern Japan city on June 9, 2020, that nine countries in the world possess an estimated total of 13,410 nuclear warheads. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea leader orders more rocket engine, warhead production

North Koreans walk in front of Pyongyang Station on Aug. 23, 2017. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's key science institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and warheads, official state media reported the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea leader orders more rocket engine, warhead production

Residents of Pyongyang look at photos of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile displayed in front of Pyongyang Station on Aug. 23, 2017. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's key science institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and warheads, official state media reported the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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N. Korea leader orders more rocket engine, warhead production

Photos of the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile are displayed in front of Pyongyang Station on Aug. 23, 2017. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the country's key science institute to produce more solid-fuel rocket engines and warheads, official state media reported the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Draft proposes cutting number of warheads to less than 1,000

TOKYO, Japan - Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans (L) and former Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguwi, who co-chair the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, hold a joint news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 16, 2009. The commission, which was established at the initiative of Australia and Japan, will hold its final meeting in Hiroshima from Oct. 18 to 20. (Kyodo)

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

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U.S. destroyer Cushing arrives in Japan's Maizuru port

MAIZURU, Japan - The U.S. destroyer Cushing (front) is seen arriving in Maizuru, a port in Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan, on Aug. 2 for a five-day stopover for crew leave and provisions. The 9,250-ton vessel is based in Yokosuka Naval Base in Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. It carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, which can carry nuclear warheads.

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Forum urges U.S., Russia to cut nuke weapons to 1,000

TOKYO, Japan - A Japan-initiated international forum of experts on nuclear disarmament adopts at the end of its three-day session on July 25 a proposal urging the United States and Russia to reduce the number of their strategic nuclear weapons to 1,000 warheads each. The photo shows Yasushi Akashi (R), the forum's co-chairman, meeting the press after the end of the conference at a Tokyo hotel.