By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on the eve of a summit with U.S. Donald Trump that their two countries might strike a new deal on nuclear weapons as part of a wider effort to strengthen peace.

A California man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after admitting to shipping weapons and ammunition to North Korea.

"The only thing that the West understands is strength. We can destroy all of them with nuclear weapons," TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov said.

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its immediate impact on World War II, it ushered in the nuclear age, forever altering international relations and security.

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems.

The White House has now fully embraced bomb-prone nuclear fuel technology. This should stop before an arms race, atomic terrorism or even nuclear war results

Each Aug. 9 a peace ceremony is held in Richland, Wash., to mark the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, using plutonium produced at the Hanford nuclear site. World Citizens for Peace started the annual ceremonies, and now they are led by the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.

For Archbishop Wester, the issue is close to home. Located within his archdiocese is the Los Alamos Laboratory, and he noted that the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe is located less than 200 yards from the secret gateway to the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos where the nuclear weapons used against Japan were developed.

How to build a nuke and what you can do about it. June 28, 2010— -- Nuclear weapons have been making a lot of noise lately. Whether it's a new START agreement, a United Nations summit or a ...

Though we fortunately haven't seen any examples in the wild yet, many academic studies have demonstrated it may be possible that large language models could theoretically be used to create biological,