All posts tagged "Nuclear Weapon"

Vice President JD Vance suggested that Iran had the desire to blow up grocery stores with nuclear suicide vests.

During a cabinet meeting on Thursday, Vance praised the U.S. military strikes on Iran for creating options for negotiations.

"What we have now that we didn't have when the president took over just a little over a year ago is the ability to use every tool at our disposal to ensure that Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon," he explained. "Because when I say options, I think it's important the American people know, options, and it's options to ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon."...

President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. may have to "attack" Iran's nuclear sites to prevent the Islamic Republic from building a nuclear weapon, according to a new report in TIME.

CNN's Alayna Treene discussed TIME's interview on Friday's Situation Room.

"He said that he would be open to meeting with Iran's supreme leader," Treene said, recounting the article's news-making highlights. "He also made it very clear that he's confident the United States can reach a deal with Iran to try and create some sort of nuclear deal, to avoid them from building up their nuclear facility." ...

French objections scuttled talks Saturday between European powers, the United States and Iran over Iran's nuclear enrichment activities, according to media reports.

Scientists at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory believe that a well-aimed nuclear weapon could actually save the world if a major asteroid were hurtling toward us, according to a report at MSNBC's Space blog.

US President Barack Obama warned a premature attack on Iran would allow it to play the "victim" in the nuclear crisis, in remarks published Friday days before he meets Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta let slip on Sunday the big open secret that Washington war hawks don't want widely known: Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.