Six months into military conflict with Iran, President Trump has taken the most devastating option off the table, declaring he will not use nuclear weapons against the Islamic Republic even as he dismissed the nation as "totally defeated militarily."
The Department of Energy (DOE) announced that five states, Utah, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Idaho, may serve as host states for new Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses in an effort to bolster the nation's nuclear energy push.
North Korea has commissioned its first nuclear-capable surface warship, a 5,000-ton destroyer named the Choe Hyon, in a ceremony that leader Kim Jong-un used to declare his navy's nuclear transformation is proceeding on schedule.
President Trump insisted Tuesday that Iran had "fully and completely" agreed to allow inspections of its nuclear sites as part of war-ending negotiations, even as Tehran's government flatly denied any such commitment.