Nuclear Weapons

There were panic reactions with stocks falling across the board over fears of political instability in the region.

Iran is considering moving its uranium enrichment facilities to safer locations in response to fears of a possible strike from the West.

Telecom equipment giant Nokia Siemens Networks is set to scale back its export contracts with Iran, following growing international pressure and the imposition of fresh sanctions.

Saudi Arabia is considering acquiring nuclear weapons, following in the footsteps of Israel and Iran, its former intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said.

According to the book, the two-piece swimsuit takes its name from the Pacific atoll in the Marshall Islands which was the site of 23 nuclear weapons tests between 1946 and 1958. The bikini came out a few days after the first test and was said to be "split like the atom”.

British Iranians fear that businesses, cultural ties might suffer as bilateral ties between Britain and Iran touches a new low, according to a report.

Gone are the days when an act of war meant dropping bombs, shooting the enemy and marching thousands of troops across borders. Now the battle is taking place online and it is the computer geniuses in their bedrooms, rather than the battle-hardened soldiers in tanks, that are keeping governments awake at night.

Britain has said it will expel all Iranian diplomats from the country following the storming of the UK embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.

The Iranian Parliament, on Sunday, voted to expel the British ambassador to their country, as a form of retaliation against sanctions imposed by the U.S., the UK and Canada over Tehran's nuclear programme.

Kamal al-Ganzouri, a former Prime Minister under ousted President Hosni Mubarak has been appointed by Egypt's ruling generals as head of a new interim government.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has spoken out against the pro-democracy uprisings in the Arab world.

The government has imposed its toughest financial sanctions yet on Iran by cutting off all financial ties with its banks amidst fresh concerns that it is developing its nuclear programme .

Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy recently made headlines when she bared all online to protest against the censoring of the female body in Egyptian and Arab society. But she is not the only one to have used nudity as a form of protest.

Israel's insistence on the need for a pre-emptive strike on Iran belies the Jewish nation's own murky history when it comes to nuclear arsenal.

Reports of an Israeli plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities has ratcheted up tension across the Middle East. The International Business Times analyses what would be the ramifications.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, (IAEA), issued on Tuesday its much-anticipated report on Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions.

There has been much anticipation regarding the soon-to-be release of the IAEA report, as the document is tipped to show that Iran's recent nuclear developments could help it developing nuclear bombs.

The United Kingdom is prepared to militarily support a US strike against Teheran's nuclear enrichment programme, a British newspaper has reported, while in Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is believed to be pushing for a decisive strike against the Jewish state's arch-enemy.

The US dismantled its last remaining nuclear bomb - one of the most powerful weapons ever built - as part of President Barack Obama's nuclear security policy on Tuesday.

The latest "honey trap" accusation comes in the form of 26-year-old Russian Ekaterina "Katia" Zatulivete, who is accused of spying on the UK whilst maintaining a four-year affair with the 65-year-old Liberal Democrat MP Mike Hancock.

Following the recent claims that Adolf Hitler may have actually died in Argentina many years after the end of the Second World War, we take a look at some of the most bizarre myths, rumours and conspiracy theories that have been linked with the Fuhrer and the Nazi party.

The United States sent a representative for the first time to the annual memorial service for victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two nuclear attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II.

On Aug. 3, 2011, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) announced the closure of the Mox nuclear fuel manufacturing plant at the Sellafield complex in Cumbria with the loss of 600 jobs expected. A closure waiting to happen? It would certainly appear to be the case after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in March this year.

People around the world are writing Happy Independence Day messages to their Twitter friends in the United States and abroad. It seems that this year, the world is backing the U.S all the way as even the most secular today wrote "God bless America."

Israel sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Tuesday.

Despite being accused by the West of trying to produce atomic bombs, Iran stays defiant and announced on Wednesday that it will shift its production of higher grade uranium to an underground bunker in order to triple its production capacity."This year, under the supervision of the (International Atomic Energy) Agency, we will transfer 20 per cent enrichment from the Natanz site to the Fordow site and we will increase the production capacity by three times," the head of Iran's atomic...

Ahead of the US president's visit in Europe a lot has been said about the implications of the trip on the U.S-E.U relationships. What seems to be a little bit confusing is however whether it is the president who hopes to reassure his counterparts on the strength and importance of their relationship or whether his counter-parts expect him to do so.

Yesterday in his latest major speech on the Middle East, President Obama pledged American support for pro-democracy uprisings in the region. However, in the Gulf, commentators are criticising what they see as a safe choice. They insist that the speech didn't cover new ground, was short on policy prescriptions, and that the president missed a chance to apologise for America's history of supporting the dictators people revolted against. Has Obama then missed the chance of opening "a new c...

North Korea's latest tantrum, which has cost the lives of two South Korean soldiers, is a worrying development in the region, which appears to be getting more unstable every year thanks to the unpredictable actions of the murderous regime in Pyongyang.

On Wednesday Richard Dawkins, the world's most famous atheist, appeared on More4 to launch his latest attack on all things God-related by laying into faith schools and their supposedly menacing impact on our society and its children.