Nuclear weapons

Greece’s foreign ministry has finally issued a statement over the nuclear test carried out by North Korea two days after the incident, expressing “extreme concern”.

Authorities in Western Europe and the FBI have interrupted four attempts of gangs in Eastern Europe to sell nuclear material to ISIS in the last five years, according to Associated Press.

They have stopped criminals with Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive substances to the Middle Eastern extremists.

In the backwaters of Eastern Europe, authorities working with the FBI have interrupted four attempts in the past five years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press has learned.

Nuclear armed states continue to upgrade their stockpiles despite an international trend towards disarmament, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported June 15.

Romania presides the Main Committee II of the April 27 - May 22 Conference for the Evaluation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York.

Photo credit: (c) Bogdan MARAN / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

The Secretary of state for Strategic Affairs, Daniel Ionita has met on Wednesday, in New York, with the United Nations' High Representative for Disarmament, Angela Kane, the two talking mainly about the efforts of the international community in the implementation of the Treaty on Nuclear Weapons' Non-proliferation, a press release sent AGERPRES on Thursday by the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE),

South Korea and the United States reached a deal on April 22 to revise a 40-year-old civil nuclear pact that gives the Asian country limited freedom to produce fuel for power generation but continues to curb its ability to reprocess spent fuel. 

Frank Rose, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Space and Defense Policy with the U.S. Department of State, said on Tuesday at the 2014 Multinational Ballistic Missile Defense Conference organized in Bucharest that the United States could not have dreamed for a better partner than Romania.

Russia withdraws from nuclear summit preparations

MOSCOW -- Russian authorities announced they would not participate in preparations for a nuclear summit, which should be held in 2016 in the United States.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the visiting head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog on Sunday that Tehran will not discuss its long-range missile program as part of talks aimed at resolving a decade-long nuclear dispute, official media reported.