The scale of North Korea’s nuclear threat seems to be exaggerated, according to Russian nuclear scientist Borsi Goshchitsky. It might be a “mere bluff,” he said in an interview with Itar-Tass on Thursday.“It is beyond my comprehension - how come that North Korea has so many nuclear warheads to be able to threaten the world,” Goshchitsky, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the chairman of the Academy’s academic council on solid body radiation physics, said.

By David Alexander and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Pentagon spy agency report concluded that North Korea likely has a nuclear bomb that can be launched on a missile, but U.S. defence and intelligence officials cast doubt on Pyongyang's atomic weapons capabilities. Illustrating the high stakes surrounding the escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula, a study by the Pentagon's Defence Intelligence Agency stoked fears that North Korea could be closer to being able to launch a nuclear missile.

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed boosting funding for the Energy Department to modernize the nation’s existing nuclear weapons in what analysts say is part of a bargain he struck with Republican lawmakers to secure their support for the New START deal with Russia to reduce nuclear stockpiles, APA reports quoting RIA Novosti.In his federal budget blueprint unveiled Wednesday, Obama called for $7.87 billion in funding “to maintain a safe, secure and effective nuclear deterrent,” an increase of $654 million, or 9 percent, compared to the 2012 budget.The budget rei

Warning that the fog of war must never again be composed of poison gas, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday appealed to the 188 States Parties to the United Nations-backed treaty outlawing chemical weapons to do all in their power to bring on board the eight nations that still have not signed on.Eight countries remain outside of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) - Angola, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria - and Ban has repeatedly urged them to join, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) sai