Jon Snow
Geneva – history's crucible yet again
Iran and the world are talking, and talking specifics about nuclear issues, energy sanctions, and draconian curbs on Iran’s ability to do business with the outside world.
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Jon Snow
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Typhoon Wipha leaves 17 dead in Japan
Typhoon Wipha brushed along the southern side of Japan on Wednesday, causing mudslides and flooding that left 17 people dead and 50 missing.
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Fukushima: why next month is its biggest since 2011
The headlines are alarming: vast leaks of radioactive water, international experts being drafted in and spikes in radiation levels. But how bad is the situation at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant?
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What is happening at Fukushima?
The world is responding to Japan’s call for help at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. But with reports of leaks, contamination and a risky new operation, Channel 4 News asks: is it too late?
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Trident ‘has some safety issues’ – Eric Schlosser
We know about risks posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But new information reveals the US dropped bombs on its own soil. And author Eric Schlosser says Trident also has “safety issues”.
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Iran agrees to fast-track nuclear programme talks
Iran says it has agreed to fast-track nuclear negotiations, with the hope of reaching a deal within a year. But Iran’s nuclear envoy plays down prospects of a breakthrough at talks on Friday.
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Catherine Ashton: ‘We need to be confident with Iran’
Catherine Ashton, the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy, speaks to Channel 4 News about signals from Iran on nuclear talks, and about being a woman.
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Iran does ‘not seek war with any country’, pledges Rouhani
In a US TV interview, Iran’s new president Hassan Rouhani says the country seeks peace and friendship and has no nuclear weapons as he continues on a seeming rapprochement campaign with the west.
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Iran’s Rouhani wants talks, not threats, on nuclear issue
President Hassan Rouhani says he is confident the west’s fears over Iran’s nuclear programme can be allayed. Is this a delaying tactic or a sincere offer to negotiate?
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Bombs away! How have nuclear stockpiles changed since 1983?
As a speech from 1983, prepared for the Queen in case of nuclear war, is released – Channel 4 News looks at the size of atomic arsenals now.
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Alex Thomson
Inside Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone
A notice at the train station ticket office reads: “Apologies – we will be back soon.” But in the deserted radiation hotspot of Futaba, in post-Fukushima Japan, nobody will be back soon.
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Gary Gibbon
Continuously at sea on deterrence
The prospects of the Lib Dems getting to end continuous at sea deterrence look mightily reduced after Labour’s decision to retain four nuclear submarines.
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Gary Gibbon
Going nuclear over Britain’s defences
The Lib Dems want to cut the number of nuclear submarines from four to two. But officials who have carried out a study for the party say two subs would “not be a credible deterrent”.
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Jon Snow
Nuclear policy: hypocrisy and inevitability?
Sixty-eight years ago today America detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb at its Trinity testing site in New Mexico. Today the most intriguing aspect of the nuclear debate is that it is so low-key.
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Britain’s Polaris deterrent – ITN archive (1967/8)
As the government reviews renewal of the Trident nuclear deterrent, Ian Searcey dives into the ITN archives and pulls up two items from the beginnings of the Royal Navy’s atomic programme.
