Artistic image of America’s “Golden Dome” nuclear missile defense program ~ llaw
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” RELATED MEDIA”:
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Sunday Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” RELATED MEDIA”:
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Saturday Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
Trump calls for all hostages to be released in move toward peace: ‘Positive things are happening’ … WATCH: Trump reveals details on potential nuclear …
… Emergency Preparedness Offsite Coordinator from the Cooper Nuclear Station. … The Nebraska Public Power District, which owns the Cooper Nuclear Plant …
“We are negotiating, and we will negotiate , we are not after war but we do not fear any threat,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said during a speech to …
In May, 2025, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and …
(See context and description including photo credits in the Newsweek article below ~llaw)
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
Barring any last day or minute of changes or adjustments Trump seems to think the USA/Iran nuclear agreement is complete. (See video at the beginning of this Newsweek/AP article.) At this point we can only wait and see.
However, Iran has said in this article, for the first time so far as I know, that the U.S. is not capable of destroying their nuclear facilities despite Trump’s threats to do so. That statement makes me a bit nervous because Trump might choose to take offense and attempt to prove Iran wrong about their understanding of a nuclear agreement based partially on the USA’s lack of military mite. So stay tuned.
Listening to Trump in this video, it does not seem that both sides have actually agreed, by handshake or otherwise, that the “deal” is done . . . ~llaw
Iran Issues Fiery Response to Donald Trump’s Military Threats
Published May 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM EDTUpdated May 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM EDT
Iran issued a sharp response Thursday to U.S. President Donald Trump‘s suggestion that Tehran could suffer significant military consequences if a nuclear deal isn’t reached soon.
Why It Matters
Washington and Tehran have engaged in multiple rounds of talks as part of the United States’ effort to get Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions. Iran has insisted that its stockpiling of enriched uranium is strictly for peaceful purposes, but the U.S., European nations and Israel have voiced significant concerns over Iran’s pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
The issue took center stage this week, as Trump visits Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in his first major foreign trip since taking office in January. The president has repeatedly appealed to the leaders of all three nations to help facilitate a U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement.
What To Know
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Thursday that the U.S. has not engaged in military action and is choosing diplomacy because Iran’s military is serving as a deterrent.
“If the other side—whether during the earlier talks with the P5+1 or now with the United States—were able to destroy our nuclear facilities through military means, they would have done so,” Araghchi said. “They came to the table because they cannot impose their will by force.” White House special envoy Steve Witkoff is leading the talks from the U.S. side.
The foreign minister’s remarks come as Trump says the U.S. is “very close” to reaching a nuclear deal with Iran after Tehran “sort of” agreed to the Trump administration’s terms.
Hours after Trump’s comments, Araghchi said the ability to enrich uranium is a core right for Iran and one that it will not give up.
“We have said repeatedly that defending Iran’s nuclear rights—including enrichment—is a fundamental principle,” Araghchi said, according to the Associated Press. “This is not something we concede, either in public discourse or in negotiations. It is a right that belongs to the Iranian people, and no one can take it away.”
L: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on February 25, 2025. R: White House special envoy Steve Witkoff in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2025. Associated Press
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, another top Iranian official offered one of the clearest signs yet that Iran is willing to negotiate a tenable nuclear agreement with the U.S. in which Tehran would give up its nuclear goals.
Ali Shamkhani, a senior political and military adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told NBC News that Tehran will commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to enrich uranium only to the lower levels needed for civilian use and allow international inspectors to supervise the process.
Shamkhani said Iran wants all economic sanctions lifted in return. When NBC asked him if Iran would sign an agreement with those terms today, Shamkhani replied, “Yes.”
What People Are Saying
President Donald Trump said in Doha, Qatar, on Thursday: “Iran has sort of agreed to the terms: They’re not going to make, I call it, in a friendly way, nuclear dust. We’re not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran.”
What Happens Next
Trump has insisted throughout the talks that the U.S. will not sign an agreement with Iran unless it includes Tehran giving up its nuclear ambitions.
“They can’t have nuclear weapons. That’s the only thing,” he said this week. “It’s very simple. It’s not like I have to give you 30 pages worth of details. It is only one sentence. They can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
But he suggested Wednesday that he’s also looking for Tehran to make other concessions as part of a deal.
Iran “must stop sponsoring terror, halt its bloody proxy wars and permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons,” Trump said in Saudi Arabia. “They cannot have a nuclear weapon.”
The Associated Press contributed reporting to this article.
Update 5/15/25, 5:57 p.m. ET: This article was updated with additional information.Subscribed
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL NUCLEAR DAILY DIGEST” RELATED MEDIA
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, in Bushehr, Iran on November 10, 2019. See image in the CNN article for Photo credits.
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
First of all, Trump is a liar and a contradictory deceiver. and phrases like reporting to news media “sort of agreed“ over vital world news to the media —as he states in this article with CNN — is ridiculous and not newsworthy of even the following headline except to prove that what he has to say is pure conjecture.
He has insisted that Iran cannot generate and enrich its own nuclear fuel and that they cannot have a nuclear weapon, and then says to news, “that an enrichment program in Iran is a “red line” for the US.” In an earlier interview with Fox News, he had suggested that Iran could be allowed to enrich uranium to low levels. And then he says, “Enemies get you motivated and that he would apply “maximum pressure.”
Iran has said that its right to enrich uranium is non-negotiable, but the Trump administration has sent mixed signals on its position on the matter. So how can it be that “very close”, as he stated, to having an agreement?
And what the hell does “getting very close to maybe doing a deal” as he is quoted in the article. “Very close” and “maybe” are simply not of compatible meaning to one-another. We simply, under the world nuclear situation, have a president of our country who can’t even put a complete sentence together . . .
And we all know that there is no such thing as “friendly” nuclear “dust”, Trump said, which I suppose refers to nuclear fallout if the U.S. is “forced” to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if they don’t sign whatever agreement he hatches from the seat of his pants.
Having followed the USA’s erratic, contradictory, and confusing issue from the beginning to now, I am inclined to agree with the Iranian President who is reported to have lambasted the threatening remarks by Trump this way:
“The US president “is naïve for thinking that he can come to our region, threaten us, and hope that we back down against his demands,” Iranian President Pezeshkian told a group of academics during a gathering in Kermanshah Province on Wednesday, according to the Iranian media. “We will never negotiate our dignity. This is in the blood of every Iranian,”
~llaw
Trump says US is ‘very close’ to a nuclear deal after Iran ‘agreed’ to its terms
US President Donald Trump gestures during a business roundtable in Doha, Qatar on Thursday.
Alex Brandon/AP
CNN —
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington is “very close” to reaching a nuclear deal with Iran after Tehran “sort of” agreed to its terms.
“Iran has sort of agreed to the terms: They’re not going to make, I call it, in a friendly way, nuclear dust. We’re not going to be making any nuclear dust in Iran,” he said.
Iranian officials haven’t publicly commented on Trump’s remarks, though the comments were reported by the country’s semi-official ISNA news agency. CNN has requested a comment from Iran’s mission to the United Nations.
Speaking at a business roundtable in the Qatari capital Doha, Trump reiterated that Iran “can’t have a nuclear weapon” and suggested that negotiators are “getting very close to maybe doing a deal.”
Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, in Bushehr, Iran on November 10, 2019.
Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
During his Gulf tour, Trump has repeatedly warned that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon, threatening to strike the country if it fails to reach a nuclear deal. But he has not explicitly ruled out Iran enriching uranium on its own soil. While uranium is used as a nuclear fuel, it can be weaponized if enriched to high levels.
Iran has said that its right to enrich uranium is non-negotiable, but the Trump administration has sent mixed signals on its position on the matter.
In an interview with Breitbart last week, US foreign envoy Steve Witkoff said that an enrichment program in Iran is a “red line” for the US. In an earlier interview with Fox News, he had suggested that Iran could be allowed to enrich uranium to low levels.
Several rounds of talks have taken place between the US and Iran, but the most recent one in the Omani capital Muscat last weekend was described by the Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson as “difficult.”
A senior Trump administration official gave a more positive assessment, telling CNN the discussions, which lasted over three hours, were encouraging.
Global oil prices fell after Trump’s comments. The price of a barrel of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, fell over 3% Thursday morning to $64 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, was trading down 3.5% to almost $61 a barrel around the same time.
‘We are going to protect this country’
It is unclear what Trump meant by “nuclear dust,” but Gulf states, including Qatar, are concerned that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could cause an environmental catastrophe in the region and drag them into a wider regional war.
Speaking in Doha, Trump vowed to “protect” Qatar.
“For this country in particular, because you’re right next door, you’re a stone’s throw away, not even, right? You’re a foot away. You can walk right into Iran. Other countries are much further away, so probably it’s not quite the same level of danger, but we are going to protect this country, this very special place with a special royal family,” he said.
Women walk near a building bearing an anti-US mural with the slogan “Down with the USA” and skulls replacing the stars on the US flag, on Tehran’s Karim Khan Zand avenue on April 26.
Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian lambasted the threatening remarks by Trump.
The US president “is naive for thinking that he can come to our region, threaten us, and hope that we back down against his demands,” Pezeshkian told a group of academics during a gathering in Kermanshah Province on Wednesday, according to the Iranian media. “We will never negotiate our dignity. This is in the blood of every Iranian,”
“You have tried to bring Iran to its knees for the past 47 years. We have existed for thousands of years and will continue as one for the years to come,” he said.
On Wednesday, Trump repeated his threats, saying he doesn’t want nuclear talks in Iran to take a “violent course.”
“Two courses, there’s only two courses. There aren’t three or four or five, there’s two. There’s a friendly and a non-friendly, and non-friendly is a violent course, and I don’t want that. I’ll say it up front. I don’t want that, but they have to get moving,” the president said.
CNN’s Anna Cooban contributed reporting.
Subscribed
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL NUCLEAR DAILY DIGEST” RELATED MEDIA
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
When Russian President Vladimir Putin feels like he’s winning in Ukraine, he eases up on his nuclear threats. … nuclear war—represents a de-escalation …
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
The STATEMENT of the “Elders”, written below, relative to the continued, and preferably better, control of nuclear weapons remains a serious concern for everyone on the planet. All of humanity should support and demand that every precaution to prevent nuclear war be absolutely required for all of humanity without question.
But my personal worries for humanity extends beyond nuclear warfare as we define it today, and must be acknowledged today that there is also the added threat of nuclear energy, which did not exist in 1945, of course. Nuclear power plants are what I refer to as “stationary” nuclear weapons and are also subject to nuclear war involvement as well as such other extreme dangerous issues such as terrorism, theft of nuclear fuel (uranium) in black marketeering, and the serious threat of nuclear accidents both manmade and by so-called “acts of god” such as earthquakes, typhoons, and other geological damage that could endanger human and other life just as much as the threat of nuclear war.
There was not one word of concern about the nuclear power plant dangers that could be more likely to occur than nuclear war — or also very likely used as nuclear weapons in the event of nuclear war. This issue must be dealt with now, as it is just as dangerous to life as the threat of nuclear war. We cannot afford to allow nuclear power and uranium fuel to be taken for granted, but rather open our eyes wide to extreme oversite and constant care of “all things nuclear”, not just our concerns about the usual threats of nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
A present case in point is the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine which has been under siege for over three years, from attacks during the Russia/Ukraine war constantly causing concerns about the plant being used as a weapon of war. As nuclear power plants grow more common all around the planet, that danger of not only nuclear safety and nuclear accidents becomes even more dangerous by including weapons of war themselves. ~llaw
STATEMENT: The risk of nuclear catastrophe is higher than at any time since the Cold War. Leaders are failing to uphold international law, and eroding basic norms. We are regressing into a world in which the rule of law is being replaced by rule by power, with a destabilising new nuclear arms race.
We have come to Hiroshima to honour the victims of the atomic bombing in 1945. The upcoming 80th anniversary should compel all leaders to revitalise efforts towards nuclear disarmament. Instead, we are deeply concerned at the trivialisation of the use of nuclear weapons.
We reaffirm our support for full abolition of nuclear weapons. To reach this, we need a progressive global disarmament agenda based on four essential pillars: every nuclear-armed state should adopt a “no first use” doctrine, as many weapons as possible should be taken off high-alert status, a dramatic and urgent reduction in the number of weapons that are operationally deployed, and decreasing numbers to a maximum of 500 warheads each for the USA, Russia and China.
The recent fighting between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states, underscores the terrifying risk of how quickly conflict can escalate to the point of a nuclear exchange.
President Putin’s contempt for the basic norms of state sovereignty and territorial integrity is driving a new arms race across Europe. Uncertainty around President Trump’s commitment to the USA’s traditional defence alliances is also accelerating rearmament.
Putting nuclear weapons at the heart of national defence perpetuates the dangerous myth that nuclear deterrence keeps us safe. Today’s weapons have a combined destructive capability of close to 100,000 Hiroshima or Nagasaki-sized bombs. One single bomb dropped in Hiroshima claimed around 140,000 victims by the end of 1945. Today’s collective arsenal has the capacity to destroy human civilisation.
Yet war and nuclear confrontation are not inevitable. The ongoing talks between the US and Iranian governments on Iran’s nuclear programme could be a successful example of leaders pursuing political solutions over military confrontation.
We urge President Trump to follow through on negotiating nuclear reductions with Russia and China. The looming expiry of the New START agreement between Russia and the USA could leave a vacuum at the heart of non-proliferation efforts. Both countries must focus urgently on extending an agreement that is in both their interests.
All nuclear states should also enter into sustained high-level dialogue on placing guardrails on the role of Artificial Intelligence in weapons systems, focused on how to maintain meaningful human control.
In Hiroshima, we have heard again from survivors of the 1945 bombing, whose moving testimony of the intergenerational human suffering caused by these terrible weapons must never be forgotten. We have been inspired too by the commitment of young Japanese activists to the total eradication of nuclear weapons.
We encourage the Government of Japan to be a strong global voice to strengthen the taboo on using nuclear weapons. Engaging with the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is one important way for Japan to use its unique moral authority, building on the leadership it showed when hosting the G7 in 2023.
All leaders must take meaningful steps to minimise nuclear risks, revitalise dialogue on arms control and de-escalate nuclear modernisation. Failure to do so would be a betrayal of the memory of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the security of current and future generations.
ENDSSubscribed
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL NUCLEAR DAILY DIGEST” RELATED MEDIA
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
The state of nuclear energy: A critical transition point … According to the World Nuclear Association, nuclear power generates 20% of electricity and …
Efforts to restart large nuclear plants along with private-sector investment and Department of Energy support for small modular reactor technology are …
Eighty years on from their devastating use, Ernesto Zedillo explores the enduring threat of nuclear weapons and how we can reduce the risks they pose …
Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
You, the reader, will have to decide for yourself whether Trump took advantage of both India and Pakistan’s “war” situation and used the bombing of Pakistan as a way to misdirect world politics and economics toward his confusing policies on tariffs and “trade” with foreign nations that is not going well.
My suspicion is that Trump’s role in “brokering” peace between the two nations had absolutely nothing to do with either avoiding conventional or possible future nuclear wars between the two countries. Even Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance has said as much, and claimed that neither he nor Marco Rubio had any ability to stop the hostility between India and Pakistan. This makes Trump’s “brokering” seem to have been staged from whole-cloth in its entirety.
I have reason to believe that Trump made it all up and used his two most important international leaders, Vance and Rubio, as scape-goats or puppets in an attempt to make the U.S. involvement far more important than he claims. But there is too much confusion about the entire issue to be absolutely certain. So this will be the last you see or hear from me on the subject, but it is obvious that neither India nor Pakistan believes Trump’s version of how the U.S. helped to “broker” the the ceasefire. ~llaw
“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After
Donald Trump Press Conference: “It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.
Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.
Donald Trump claims credit for averting a potential “nuclear conflict”.
He asserts that his administration brokered a ceasefire between India and Pak
Trade was not mentioned in US discussions with Indian leaders, sources say.
New Delhi:
Donald Trump has taken credit for having “stopped a nuclear conflict – a bad one” in the brink of time. Both India and Pakistan have “lots of nuclear weapons”, said the US President, adding that the two nations were going at it “hot and heavy”.
Giving himself a pat on the back, President Trump said it was “my administration that helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire. I think a permanent one”. Both India and Pakistan were “powerful and unwavering”, the US President acknowledged.
“It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.
TRUMP GOING OFF-SCRIPT?
President Trump, who was reading from a paper in a file he brought to the press briefing, perhaps to be accurate and measured as he walked the diplomatic tightrope, suddenly went off-script as he spoke spontaneously without looking at the paper shortly after a minute into the brief.
In a surprising claim Mr Trump ended up saying “I said, come on, we’re going to do a lot of trade with you guys, both countries, so let’s stop it. Stop it if you want trade. If you don’t stop, we’re not going to do any trade.” He went on to claim that “People have never used trade the way I have used it – and then all of a sudden they said ‘we’re going to stop’. They might have done it for a lot of reasons, but trade was a big one.”
Government sources have told NDTV that there was no mention of trade in the discussions. Rejecting the off-hand remark by the US President, they said, “After Operation Sindoor commenced, US Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9. Secretary Rubio spoke to the foreign minister S Jaishankar on May 8 and May 10 and to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on May 10. There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions.”
‘NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL WON’T DETER INDIA’
Less than an hour after Donald Trump’s “could have been a bad nuclear war” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned that India will not tolerate “nuclear blackmail”, and has revised its doctrine to combat terror with the commencement of Operation Sindoor. According to what PM Modi called “the new normal”, he said, “Operation Sindoor is not just an operation, but a doctrinal change in India’s policy to combat terror.”
He added that “India will strike wherever terror bases are located, and shall do so decisively if our country is attacked.”
“India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” PM Modi said in a warning to Pakistan, and a message to the world.
‘CEASEFIRE NOT PERMANENT’
Without any direct mention of Donald Trump’s White House press briefing, where President Trump claimed that this was a “permanent ceasefire”, PM Modi said Operation Sindoor is not over, it has only been suspended based of Pakistan’s assurance that it will act on dismantling terror infrastructure in the country.
“Pakistan must know that the strikes are not over, they have only been suspended after Pakistan promised it will take action against terrorists and terror facilities,” the prime minister said, adding that “In the coming days we will measure every step of Pakistan on the criterion that what sort of attitude Pakistan will adopt ahead.” If Pakistan backtracks or misleads, “Let me repeat again, that we have only suspended our retaliatory action,” he asserted, suggesting resumption of precision strikes to decimate Pakistani terror camps.
PM Modi also cautioned Pakistan that henceforth “India will not differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of the terror attack.”
Subscribed
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL NUCLEAR DAILY DIGEST” RELATED MEDIA
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
The clean-energy company has detailed at length its plans to construct its first Aurora powerhouse on the grounds of Idaho National Laboratory, one of …
Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
You, the reader, will have to decide for yourself whether Trump took advantage of both India and Pakistan’s “war” situation and used the bombing of Pakistan as a way to misdirect world politics and economics toward his confusing policies on tariffs and “trade” with foreign nations that is not going well.
My suspicion is that Trump’s role in “brokering” peace between the two nations had absolutely nothing to do with either avoiding conventional or possible future nuclear wars between the two countries. Even Trump’s Vice President J.D. Vance has said as much, and claimed that neither he nor Marco Rubio had any ability to stop the hostility between India and Pakistan. This makes Trump’s “brokering” seem to have been staged from whole-cloth in its entirety.
I have reason to believe that Trump made it all up and used his two most important international leaders, Vance and Rubio, as scape-goats or puppets in an attempt to make the U.S. involvement far more important than he claims. But there is too much confusion about the entire issue to be absolutely certain. So this will be the last you see or hear from me on the subject, but it is obvious that neither India nor Pakistan believes Trump’s version of how the U.S. helped to “broker” the the ceasefire. ~llaw
“Could’ve Been A Bad Nuke War,” Claims Trump. What PM Modi Said Shortly After
Donald Trump Press Conference: “It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.
Both Donald Trump and PM Modi spoke about Operation Sindoor – India’s response to Pak terror.
Donald Trump claims credit for averting a potential “nuclear conflict”.
He asserts that his administration brokered a ceasefire between India and Pak
Trade was not mentioned in US discussions with Indian leaders, sources say.
New Delhi:
Donald Trump has taken credit for having “stopped a nuclear conflict – a bad one” in the brink of time. Both India and Pakistan have “lots of nuclear weapons”, said the US President, adding that the two nations were going at it “hot and heavy”.
Giving himself a pat on the back, President Trump said it was “my administration that helped broker a full and immediate ceasefire. I think a permanent one”. Both India and Pakistan were “powerful and unwavering”, the US President acknowledged.
“It could have been a bad nuclear war, where millions of people could have been killed,” he said, thanking Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio for their efforts. “They worked very hard on that,” he said.
TRUMP GOING OFF-SCRIPT?
President Trump, who was reading from a paper in a file he brought to the press briefing, perhaps to be accurate and measured as he walked the diplomatic tightrope, suddenly went off-script as he spoke spontaneously without looking at the paper shortly after a minute into the brief.
In a surprising claim Mr Trump ended up saying “I said, come on, we’re going to do a lot of trade with you guys, both countries, so let’s stop it. Stop it if you want trade. If you don’t stop, we’re not going to do any trade.” He went on to claim that “People have never used trade the way I have used it – and then all of a sudden they said ‘we’re going to stop’. They might have done it for a lot of reasons, but trade was a big one.”
Government sources have told NDTV that there was no mention of trade in the discussions. Rejecting the off-hand remark by the US President, they said, “After Operation Sindoor commenced, US Vice President JD Vance spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 9. Secretary Rubio spoke to the foreign minister S Jaishankar on May 8 and May 10 and to National Security Adviser Ajit Doval on May 10. There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions.”
‘NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL WON’T DETER INDIA’
Less than an hour after Donald Trump’s “could have been a bad nuclear war” remark, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mentioned that India will not tolerate “nuclear blackmail”, and has revised its doctrine to combat terror with the commencement of Operation Sindoor. According to what PM Modi called “the new normal”, he said, “Operation Sindoor is not just an operation, but a doctrinal change in India’s policy to combat terror.”
He added that “India will strike wherever terror bases are located, and shall do so decisively if our country is attacked.”
“India will not tolerate any nuclear blackmail. India will strike precisely and decisively at the terrorist hideouts developing under the cover of nuclear blackmail,” PM Modi said in a warning to Pakistan, and a message to the world.
‘CEASEFIRE NOT PERMANENT’
Without any direct mention of Donald Trump’s White House press briefing, where President Trump claimed that this was a “permanent ceasefire”, PM Modi said Operation Sindoor is not over, it has only been suspended based of Pakistan’s assurance that it will act on dismantling terror infrastructure in the country.
“Pakistan must know that the strikes are not over, they have only been suspended after Pakistan promised it will take action against terrorists and terror facilities,” the prime minister said, adding that “In the coming days we will measure every step of Pakistan on the criterion that what sort of attitude Pakistan will adopt ahead.” If Pakistan backtracks or misleads, “Let me repeat again, that we have only suspended our retaliatory action,” he asserted, suggesting resumption of precision strikes to decimate Pakistani terror camps.
PM Modi also cautioned Pakistan that henceforth “India will not differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of the terror attack.”
Subscribed
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s ALL NUCLEAR DAILY DIGEST” RELATED MEDIA
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are three Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
The clean-energy company has detailed at length its plans to construct its first Aurora powerhouse on the grounds of Idaho National Laboratory, one of …
LLAW’s NUCLEAR WORLD NEWS TODAY and the GLOBAL RISKS & CONSEQUENCES TOMORROW
In My Opinion:
This is all I’m going to post here until I have all the information I need to safely say that this is a stunt and an attempt to force Pakistan and India into his never-ending failed trade agreements. There is plenty of fabrication evidence including a Trump video where he appears to be lying in his usual manner as he refers to a statement, with a few obvious telling ad libs, that he announced to the world about how they negotiated the cease-fire through “trade” — for the 1st time ever . . . Wow! ~llaw
Trump says he stopped India, Pakistan ‘nuclear war’ using trade threat; New Delhi trashes his clam ‘There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions,’ said the source in New Delhi, contradicting the US president’s claim. Anirban Bhaumik D…
There was no reference to trade in any of these discussions,’ said the source in New Delhi, contradicting the US president’s claim. Anirban Bhaumik DHNS Last Updated : 12 May 2025, 07:21 IST Follow Us : 1
#WATCH | US President Donald Trump says, “…On Saturday, my administration helped broker an immediate ceasefire, I think a permanent one between India and Pakistan – the countries having a lot of nuclear weapons…” (Source – White House/Youtube) Subscribed
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War Threats
Nuclear War
Yellowstone Caldera & Other Volcanoes (Note: There are no Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available in today’s Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
The threat of nuclear annihilation demands our immediate attention. In … We have, in a sense, already had our nuclear war — the only one allowed to us …
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” RELATED MEDIA”:
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There is one Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Saturday Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
In one of his first acts in office, President Trump declared a “national energy emergency … nuclear power plants could strengthen U.S. energy security …
We do need to be prepared.” To mitigate the threats, the nuclear modernization needs to go forward “as fast as we can” to bring new systems online, he …
India blames Pakistan for the attack; the Pakistani government denies complicity. India and Pakistan have disputed control of the Kashmir region ever …
By the way Trump is accused of lying about the U.S. helping to broker the peace agreement ratified jointly between India and Pakistan according to both nations. If true, this kind of false interference and gamesmanship could be extremely dangerous in a nuclear world environment.
CNN: “Overnight diplomacy: US President Donald Trump said a night of talks mediated by Washington helped secure the deal, after the White House received alarming intelligence on the conflict, according to US sources. Trump says he’s “proud” of the US role bringing the fighting to an end — although India has downplayed US involvement in the talks.”
~llaw
(I will try to get more information about this on Monday.)
People wave Pakistani flags in celebration after the ceasefire announcement with India, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday. Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
ABOUT THE FOLLOWING ACCESS TO “LLAW’s All Nuclear Daily Digest” RELATED MEDIA”:
There are 7 categories, with the latest addition, (#7) being a Friday weekly roundup of IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) global nuclear news stories. Also included is a bonus non-nuclear category for news about the Yellowstone caldera and other volcanic and caldera activity around the world that play an important role in humanity’s lives. The feature categories provide articles and information about ‘all things nuclear’ for you to pick from, usually with up to 3 links with headlines concerning the most important media stories in each category, but sometimes fewer and occasionally even none (especially so with the Yellowstone Caldera). The Categories are listed below in their usual order:
All Things Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Emergencies
Nuclear War
Nuclear War Threats
Yellowstone Caldera (Note: There are two Yellowstone Caldera bonus stories available on this weekend’s Sunday Post.)
IAEA Weekly News (Friday’s only)
Whenever there is an underlined link to a Category media news story, if you press or click on the link provided, you no longer have to cut and paste to your web browser, since this Post’s link will take you directly to the article in your browser.
A current Digest of major nuclear media headlines with automated links is listed below by nuclear Category (in the above listed order). If a Category heading does not appear in the daily news Digest, it means there was no news reported from this Category today. Generally, the three best articles in each Category from around the nuclear world(s) are Posted. Occasionally, if a Post is important enough, it may be listed in multiple Categories.
