October
Nobel Peace Prize goes to anti-nuclear group
The prize was awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organisation that campaigns for an end to nuclear weapons.
- Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros
- Exclusive
- Superannuation
AustralianSuper ESG option invested in nuclear weapons: report
Australia’s 14 biggest superannuation funds are investing about $3.4 billion in nuclear weapons despite many promising to avoid controversial arms.
- Hannah Wootton
August
- Analysis
- North Korea diplomacy
On the front line of North Korea’s nuclear threat
The possibility of another Trump presidency has global leaders nervous about Kim Jong-un’s erratic behaviour. Would a second mandate tame or embolden “little rocket man”.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
May
Global crises making it hard for ethical investors: Gareth Evans
The former foreign minister nominated Israel’s “disproportionate” response to the Hamas attacks and Narendra Modi’s leadership of India as challenges for investors.
- Phillip Coorey
March
How our era of plenty could lead to human extinction
Our success in creating a more prosperous, informed, and secure world has, unexpectedly, generated a whole new set of planetary challenges.
- Francis Gavin
February
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Putin’s space nuke is so crazy, it’s an opportunity
The spectre of Russian nuclear escalation in space could offer Joe Biden and Xi Jinping a reason to make common cause in restraining and deterring the Russian autocrat.
- Andreas Kluth
Russia plans to put nuclear missile into space, US fears
US officials said new intelligence about Russia’s nuclear capabilities was serious – but that it was still under development, and Russia had not deployed it.
- Julian E. Barnes, Karoun Demirjian, Eric Schmitt and David E. Sanger
September 2023
South Korea to call for strong response over North’s nuclear program
North Korea’s advancing nuclear arsenal is the most vexing security concern for South Korea, but it also poses serious threats to the United States and Japan.
- Hyung-Jin Kim
August 2023
Marles moves to douse ‘damaging’ Labor AUKUS dissent
Richard Marles and Pat Conroy will attach a 32-paragraph statement to Labor’s policy platform that promises the submarine pact will create ‘unionised’ jobs.
- Phillip Coorey
June 2023
Putin rattles nuclear sabre as battlefield reality bites
The Russian president spent the week trying to show that he was calling the shots as Ukraine’s counter-offensive entered a fierce, gritty stage.
- Hans van Leeuwen
March 2023
How South Korea could get away with building the bomb
The global norm against nuclear proliferation is strong, but Seoul’s political and economic ties are stronger.
- Ramon Pacheco Pardo
SA premier wades into states’ feud over AUKUS nuclear waste
Peter Malinauskas tells the WA and Victorian premiers that the national interest should govern where to put the waste, not “domestic political tit-for-tat”.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- AUKUS
AUKUS will get politically and financially tricky over time
Both the major parties support the AUKUS deal but already there is disagreement over how to pay for it.
- Phillip Coorey
Australia saddled with high-level nuclear waste under AUKUS pact
The commitment to permanently store the waste from the submarine engines threatens a repeat of the 30-year skirmish over where to bury low-level nuclear waste.
- Phillip Coorey
‘Go to a shelter’ Russians told in hackers’ fake nuclear alert
As Russian missiles rained on Ukraine, hackers interrupted Russian television and radio broadcasts with false nuclear attack warnings.
- Joe Barnes
January 2023
US accuses Russia of violating nuclear arms treaty
Washington says Moscow is blocking inspections and missing compliance meetings, as part of the New START Treaty put in place after the Cold War.
- Humeyra Pamuk
January 2023
AUKUS offers scope for nuclear energy debate: opposition
As the AUKUS nuclear submarine deal unfolds, questions will inevitably be asked whether it’s time for Australia to adopt next-generation, zero emissions nuclear energy.
- Matthew Cranston
Too great to deter? North Korea’s evolving nuclear threat
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s growing arsenal is setting the scene for a risky game of military one-upmanship with the US and its east Asian allies.
- Christian Davies, Kana Inagaki and Demetri Sevastopulo
South Korea talks with US on management of nukes under way
South Korea reconfirmed on Tuesday that Seoul and Washington are discussing its involvement in US nuclear asset management in the face of intensifying North Korean nuclear threats.
- Hyung-Jin Kim
South Korea asks US for greater role in managing nuclear weapons
President Yoon Suk Yeol said the strategy of ‘nuclear umbrella’ or ‘extended deterrence’ is no longer reassuring for the public now that North Korea has developed nuclear weapons and a range of missiles to deliver them.
- Sangmi Cha