North Korea confirms missile launch. It poses a threat to other countries because of Kim Jong Un's dictatorship.
North Korea has test-fired a tactical ballistic missile equipped with a “new autonomous navigation system”, Leader Kim Jong Un vowed to boost the country’s nuclear force.
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
"If we're shooting down a $50,000 one-way #drone with a $3 million #missile, that's not a good cost equation," Bill LaPlante, the #Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, told a Senate appropriations subcommittee on Wednesday. #RedSea#Houthis#Israel#Gaza
Russian ofcls claimed the order was in response to comments from the West about the possibility of more direct involvement in #Ukraine. #NATO called the announcement “irresponsible.”
The announcement of the exercise was Russia’s most explicit warning in its >2yr #invasion of #Ukraine that it could use tactical #NuclearWeapons there.
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict. The target is not nuclear, the official added.
#Iran launches limited attack on #Israel using #drones — is this just a preliminary to a broader #missile attack, or simply a way to tell their proxies “Look, we can hit the #Jews at will” while causing minimal damage.
A Russian #missile strike appeared to target #Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wed, landing near his motorcade in the #BlackSea port city of Odessa, where the president was meeting w/ #Greece PM Kyriakos #Mitsotakis.
Zelensky & members of the Greek delegation were not harmed, despite the missile landing some 500 feet away.
#AntiWar#activists in #Canada warn that the procurement also directly helps to fund Israel’s #WarIndustry, which equips the Israeli military in its ongoing war on Gaza.
The celebration I join in my dream is on the steps of the memorial where I and others spontaneously gather and start making speeches in between unbridled "hootin' and hollerin'" in raucous joy.
I hope this is a good omen; it's the first positive thought I've had about the #election.
There is no new information on the possible provision of Germany's Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 16.
Today in Labor History January 24, 1961: A B-52 bomber, carrying three 4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs, broke up in mid-air, dropping its nuclear payload over North Carolina. Five crewmen successfully bailed out of the aircraft and landed safely. Another ejected, but did not survive the landing. Two others died in the crash. Each of the bombs had more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb. Each one was large enough to create a 100% kill zone within an 8.5 miles radius. A supervisor of nuclear safety at Sandia National Laboratories said that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe." However, there is evidence that the switch of at least one of the bombs was set to ARM. No one knows why none of them exploded. And while the authorities were able to recover the uranium core from two of the bombs, one of them is still lost somewhere in North Carolina.
For a truly terrifying look at just how many times we were just a hair trigger away from a major nuclear accident, read Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control.”
Houthis have hit a ship. But no significant damage according to #Centcom
"On Jan. 15 at approximately 4 p.m. (Sanaa time), Iranian-backed Houthi militants fired an anti-ship ballistic missile from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen and struck the M/V Gibraltar Eagle, a Marshall Islands-flagged, U.S.-owned and operated container ship. The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage and is continuing its journey." #Houthis#Geopolitics#missile
The #missile & #drone attacks killed at least 30 people & damaged critical #industrial & #military infrastructure, part of a wintertime campaign that Ukraine had been dreading.
#Russia is giving #Ukraine hell this morning. Numerous ballistic #missile and #drone launches. In shelter. Thanks to air defences provided by the west this is a rarer occurrence now, in the early days of the war people were sleeping here every night.
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, US official tells CNN, as explosions reported near military base (edition.cnn.com)
Israel has carried out a strike inside Iran, a US official told CNN Friday, a move that threatens to push the region deeper into conflict. The target is not nuclear, the official added.
Pistorius at Munich Conference: No new information on Taurus missiles for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
There is no new information on the possible provision of Germany's Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters at the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 16.