1. Putin warns again that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty is threatened

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-nuclear-weapons-82ced2419d93ae733161b56fbd9b477d

  1. China Responds to Putin’s Nuclear Weapons Warning

https://www.newsweek.com/china-responds-putin-nuclear-weapons-warning-1879113

  1. Russia’s Nuclear Weapons Are Now in Belarus

https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/03/14/russia-nuclear-weapons-belarus-putin/

  1. Strategic Tragic Myopia: The Proposed First Use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Defend Taiwan

https://warontherocks.com/2024/03/strategic-myopia-the-proposed-first-use-of-tactical-nuclear-weapons-to-defend-taiwan

  1. North Korea’s Kim oversees ‘super-large’ rocket launcher drills

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/19/north-koreas-kim-oversees-super-large-rocket-launcher-drills

  1. North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile Tests While Blinken Is in Seoul

https://time.com/6958029/north-korea-ballistic-missile-test-blinken/

  1. North Korea claims progress in development of hypersonic missile

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/20/north-korea-claims-progress-in-development-of-hypersonic-missile

  1. Germany debates nuclear weapons, again. But now it’s different.

https://thebulletin.org/2024/03/germany-debates-nuclear-weapons-again-but-now-its-different/

  1.   India’s new missiles increase South Asia’s nuclear arms race

https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2477276

  1. IAEA to help Iraq develop peaceful nuclear programme, agency head says

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iaea-help-iraq-develop-peaceful-nuclear-programme-agency-head-says-2024-03-18/#:~:text=IAEA%20to%20help%20Iraq%20develop%20peaceful%20nuclear%20programme%2C%20agency%20head%20says,-Reuters&text=BAGHDAD%2C%20March%2018%20(Reuters),develop%20a%20peaceful%20nuclear%20programme.

  1. Nuclear weapons in space are bad news for the entire planet

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/19/24104979/nuclear-weapons-space-russia-putin-satellite-debris-orbit

  1. US and Japan push for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security council resolution

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/19/us-japan-nuclear-weapons-ban-space-un-war

  1. Exclusive: Musk’s SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/musks-spacex-is-building-spy-satellite-network-us-intelligence-agency-sources-2024-03-16/

  1. China launches Queqiao-2 relay satellite to support moon missions

https://spacenews.com/china-launches-queqiao-2-relay-satellite-to-support-moon-missions/

Warm Regards,

Team ACDC
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