Nuclear News Roundup Jul 31, 2017 North Korea will become a nuclear power and there is "not much" the U.S. can do about it, according to former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden. Newsmax.com A quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia still possess thousands of nuclear weapons. Even so, some administration officials and members of Congress are pushing wasteful and dangerous plans to expand the numbers and capabilities of those weapons, threatening a web of arms control agreements that have ensured the stability of Russian and American arsenals that contain fully 90 percent of the world’s 15,000 nuclear weapons. Nytimes.com In Ukraine, a radioactive nuclear ghost town near Chernobyl is a hot destination. Washingtonpost.com Three power towers were taken down near the Palo Verde nuclear power plant. Azfamily.com
