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Such a purchase would redraw the balance of power in northeast Asia, and could trigger a regional arms race. (Representational Image | AFP)

South Korea 'in talks to buy nuclear submarine' from US: reports

While Moon did not give specific details of the purchases, he described them as essential for national defence.

7 Nov 2017 5:30 PM IST

Newly elected South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during his inauguration ceremony at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo: AP)

S Korea will not develop atomic weapons of its own: President Moon...

In recent months Pyongyang has carried out its sixth nuclear test, its most powerful by far.

1 Nov 2017 5:21 PM IST

Indias Permanent Representative to the UN Syed Akbaruddin. (Photo: PTI)

India remains committed to goal of nuclear weapons-free world: Syed...

UN chief Guterres said only world that is safe from the use of nuke weapons is world that is completely free of atomic...

27 Sept 2017 11:38 AM IST

Stanislav Petrov

How Petrov kept his cool, and saved the world...

The disaster had set off a spiral of Cold War omens, which played out elsewhere, including Afghanistan.

27 Sept 2017 3:19 AM IST

Pakistan PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (Photo: AP)

Have nuclear weapons to counter India: Pakistan

On his maiden visit to the US as Pakistan Prime Minister, Mr Abbasi also said that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is safe...

22 Sept 2017 2:46 AM IST

newly-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, takes oath from Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain at the Presidential palace in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo: AP)

India's 'Cold Start' doctrine met with short range nuclear arsenal:...

Abbasi was also assertive of Pakistan's nuclear arsenals being safe and secure.

21 Sept 2017 10:35 AM IST

The test was North Koreas sixth and far more powerful than any weapon it has previously detonated. (Photo: AP/PTI)

China expresses resolute opposition towards North Korea's nuclear test...

Pyongyang declared the test of what it called a hydrogen bomb to be a 'perfect success.'

3 Sept 2017 2:58 PM IST

Han, addressing the UN-sponsored Conference on Disarmament, said nuclear tests in 2017 had allowed his country to perfect a national nuclear force in a transparent manner. (Photo: AP | Representational)

North Korea, US clash at disarmament forum on nuke issue

N Korea is developing missile and nuclear technology amid regular threats to destroy the US and Japan and in defiance of...

23 Jan 2018 8:51 PM IST

Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat. (Photo: PTI)

Terrorist bases in Pak aiming to revive insurgency in J&K: Rawat

The Army chief said nuclear arms may be weapons of deterrence, but that does not mean that nations will not engage in...

18 Jan 2018 9:18 AM IST

US President Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

US a step closer to N-war with usable warheads'

The NRP, set to be published by the Pentagon, will be the first update of America's nuclear doctrine in eight years.

11 Jan 2018 1:52 AM IST

The photo circulated by Pope Francis over the 2017 holidays. (Photo: Vatican Press Office)

Pope Francis signs off 2017 with poignant warning

The photo captures a boy carrying his dead brother on his shoulders while waiting for his turn at a crematory.

1 Jan 2018 4:27 AM IST

Dan Coats also said North Korea will be among the most volatile and confrontational weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threats to the US over the next year. (Photo: File/AFP)

Pakistan developing new kinds of nuke weapons: US Intel chief

Dan Coats' remarks came days after a group of Pakistan-based JeM terrorists struck the Sunjuwan Military Camp in Jammu...

14 Feb 2018 9:16 AM IST