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The United Nations Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly today and used a magic marker to illustrate his demand for American intervention in Iran’s nuclear program. After ticking off the evidence that he says points to Iran’s support of terrorism around the world, Netanyahu said that “given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine Iranian …

The above ad can presently been seen on Brussels mass transit. Not mentioned in the text is the parade of vehicles apparently carrying nuclear missiles along the river bank. Copyranter has a quote from from the head of European Conservatives: The posters were “either a mistake or a piece of poorly disguised Putin propaganda. If Aeroflot did not intend to …

Via NPR here’s a handily terrifying interactive map where you can test-bomb nukes on your neighborhood. The explosion creates a series of concentric circles, color-coded to show the zone where everything is incinerated, the space where most things get emulsified or crushed, the space where radiation is lethal, the space where people are poisoned by radiation, the space where they …

How’s that fallout bunker coming? Via Reuters: Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran’s nuclear programme as a threat to its own security, Moscow’s departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday. “Iran is our neighbour,” Dmitry Rogozin told reporters in Brussels. “And if Iran is involved in any military action, it’s a direct threat to our security.” Rogozin …

Iran claims to have proof that the United States was behind this week’s murder of one of their leading nuclear scientists. The IRNA state news agency said Saturday that Iran’s Foreign Ministry has sent a diplomatic letter to the U.S. saying that it has “evidence and reliable information” that the CIA provided “guidance, support and planning” to assassins “directly involved” …

The doomsday clock was moved up one minute this week. The most significant contributing factors to the decision were the narrowly averted nuclear disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan which was caused by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11. There were also concerns about the danger from Iran which has begun to enrich uranium at a secret underground …

After an expose by the website Truth Out, the Air Force has suspended a program that uses Christian parables to teach “nuclear ethics.” The course was led by Air Force chaplains and took place during a missile officer’s first week in training at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Officers who train to be missileers were required to attend the …

Clip description: “Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998.”

The New York Times reports on the latest advice from the feds on what to do in the event of a nuclear bomb. Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building …

Former Clinton White House adviser Dick Morris says Barack Obama is the first anti-American president because he’s said that he wouldn’t use nuclear missiles to respond to a non-nuclear terrorist attack on an American city.

As North Korea readies for a long-range missile test, President Obama says that we are ready for any potential threat. The U.S. Department of Defense has ordered “additional protections” for Hawaii in case the missile is launched over the Pacific. “This administration — and our military is fully prepared for any contingencies,” Obama said during an interview with CBS News’ …