AM Nukes Roundup – August 3 – Trump says US will hold off on fresh Iran attack in hope of quick deal

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August 3, 2026

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PEACE & SECURITY EDITORIAL CALENDAR

August 5: Anniversary of the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963)

August 6: Anniversary of Hiroshima bombing (1945)

August 6: Anniversary of the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone (1985)

August 8: Anniversary of "Fire and Fury" (2017)

August 9: Anniversary of Nagasaki bombing (1945)

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NEWS CLIPS

CHINA

 

Chinese rocket scientists find ‘most effective’ way to nuke a doomsday asteroid

Ling Xin, South China Morning Post - August 2

 

Why China’s JL-3 made waves with first submarine-based missile test in over 40 years

Seong Hyeon Choi, South China Morning Post - August 1

 

What China’s hypersonic anti-ship missile fired from a smaller destroyer signals

Albee Zhang, South China Morning Post - July 31

 

China signals buildout of nuclear missile silos for ‘strategic trump cards’

Liu Zhen, South China Morning Post - July 31

 

KOREA

 

Western allies warn North Korean IT workers funding nuclear arsenal

Heba Habib, Al Jazeera - July 31

 

30% of defectors from N. Korea's nuclear test site areas show chromosome mutations: study

Yonhap - July 31

 

IRAN

 

Trump Cancels Iran Attack After ‘Perimeters’ of Deal Reached; Hormuz to Open, Nuclear Threat Set to Be Ended

Joshua Klein, Breitbart - August 2

 

In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear

Steven Erlanger, New York Times - August 1

 

Trump says US will hold off on fresh Iran attack in hope of quick deal

Yasmine Ghania, Menna Alaaeldin, Reuters - August 1

 

What is Iran's Pickaxe Mountain and why does Trump say he wants to bomb it?

Shayan Sardarizadeh, Jake Horton, Ghoncheh Habibiazad, BBC - July 31

 

As Iran conflict enters 6th month, Saudi and Israeli leaders try to shape Trump's decisions

Margaret Brennan, CBS News - July 30

 


OPINION & COMMENTARY

Editorial Board: Trump’s Latest Iran ‘DEAL’

EDITORIAL: Washington Post - August 2

 

Suha Kidwai: How Trump’s Saudi deal could spark a nuclear arms race in the Middle East

OPINION: The Independent - August 2

 

Alan Eyre: How to end the ‘Hormuz war’

OPINION: Al Jazeera - August 2

 

Editorial Board: Why the passing of Hiroshima survivors masks a new nuclear reality

EDITORIAL : Canberra Times - August 2

 

Max McCoy: A decade after Obama’s historic Hiroshima trip, the world edges toward oblivion. Can we step away?

OPINION: Kansas Reflector - August 2

 

Dan Hannan: We are closer to nuclear war than at any time since 1962

OPINION: Washington Examiner - August 1

 

Ibrahim Al-Marashi: Does Saudi Arabia want to develop nuclear weapons? Here’s what history can tell us

OPINION: The Conversation - August 1

 

Edward Markey, Jeff Merkley, John Garamendi, Don Beyer: Trump’s Saudi nuclear deal is corrupt and dangerous. Just ask Marco Rubio.

OPINION: MS Now - July 31

 

Harry Kazianis: China Announced the H-20 Stealth Bomber in 2016. A Decade Later, It Looks Frozen In Time and Can’t Match the B-2 or B-21 from the US Air Force

OPINION: 19FortyFive - July 31

 

Brad Wolf: An Eighty-Year Nuclear Nightmare: The U.S., Japan, and Korea

OPINION: Counterpunch - July 31

 


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