News of the nuclear industry and energy

The United States plans to conduct another test launch of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in early May to test the combat readiness of nuclear deterrence weapons, according to the international notice on the closure of the area for civil aviation flights over the Pacific Ocean (NOTAM).

The participants of the negotiations in Vienna on the Iranian nuclear issue have started drafting the text of an agreement on the resumption of compliance with the JCPOA, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

As reported, on April 30, 2021, the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Admiral Lazarev" (former "Frunze", factory number 801) of project 11442, withdrawn from the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, was towed from its long-term parking place to the sediment in Fokino (Abrek Bay of Strelok Bay) for disposal at JSC "30th Ship Repair Plant" (Danube village, Primorsky Krai).

The administration of US President Joe Biden is considering a near-total waiver of some of the strictest sanctions on Iran in an attempt to return to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on the Iranian Nuclear Issue (JCPOA), the Associated Press reports, citing current and former US officials.

The work planned by the Pentagon to create new interceptor missiles is directed against Russia's strategic nuclear forces, said Igor Korotchenko, the director of the CAMTO, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The use of star navigation will allow you to bypass the blocking of the Global Positioning System (GPS) by potential US adversaries like Russia and China, writes the American magazine Popular Mechanics.

Washington believes that the absence of a nuclear agreement with Iran regulating development in this area would be beyond Russia's interests, US State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a briefing.

A Syrian air defense missile flew unhindered into Israeli airspace and exploded 30 kilometers from the nuclear research center in Dimona.

According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, the Israeli air force this night tried once again to attack objects in the Damascus area.

The United States cannot continue to deter Russia and China with the "remnants of the Cold War" - the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), they are too old to extend their life, the head of the Strategic Command, Admiral Charles Richard, said on Tuesday during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Moscow rejects Washington's accusations of non-compliance with Russia's moratorium on nuclear tests

The United States groundlessly accuses Russia of non-compliance with the moratorium on nuclear tests, while they themselves are silent about their plans to deploy new nuclear weapons, the Russian Foreign Ministry says.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, named the share of modern weapons in the country's nuclear triad. The statement of the head of state is reported by RIA Novosti.

Israeli military intelligence and senior Mossad officials believe that talks in Vienna between Iran and other world powers will lead to the return of the United States to the 2015 nuclear deal, Axios reported on Monday, citing knowledgeable sources.

The French nuclear submarine Perle, which was badly damaged in a fire in June last year, will be able to return to service in three years. However, this will not be quite an ordinary repair: the submarine will be cut in half, the damaged part will be separated from it, and the "healthy" half from the exact same, but decommissioned boat will be installed instead.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May

The carrier of unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon" the nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" of project 09851 will be launched next autumn. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The Iranian authorities announced on Saturday that they had identified the person who carried out the sabotage at the nuclear facility in Natanz, the Associated Press reports.

The resident of the special economic zone of the capital "Special Design and Technological Bureau of Applied Robotics" ("SKTB PR") has delivered a batch of eight mobile robotic complexes MRK-15 for the Russian law enforcement agencies, designed to neutralize explosive objects, said the head of the Department of Investment and Industrial Policy of Moscow Alexander Prokhorov.

Ukrainian Ambassador Andriy Melnyk in Berlin called on Western countries to think about returning his country's nuclear status. He said this on the radio station Deutschlandfunk.

Ukraine renounced its status as a nuclear power after the collapse of the USSR. Earlier, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the rejection of nuclear weapons is a big mistake, but it is wrong to seek to return the nuclear status. But the infamous Ukrainian ambassador to Germany does not agree with the Ukrainian leader.

Judging by the dimensions of the lower part of the Chinese aircraft carrier Type 003, its dimensions do not differ much from the latest American ships of the Gerald R. Ford type. This conclusion was reached by the experts of Naval News, having studied satellite photos of the shipyard in Shanghai, where the aircraft carrier is being built.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that Iran needs to "cool down" after the recent operation at the Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, allegedly committed by Israel.