Russia’s New Doomsday Missile Was Built to Annihilate America—Then, It Exploded
The weapon, designed to be an apex engine of atomic destruction, already has the unofficial nickname “Satan-II.” But will it ...
Kazakhstan faces up to the legacy of Soviet weapons testing in a referendum on nuclear power
MOSCOW -- Polls are open in Kazakhstan Sunday for a landmark referendum on building the country’s first nuclear power plant, confronting the country's painful legacy as a testing ground for Soviet ...
"Escalation dominance" and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts
Nuclear arsenals are vastly more powerful today than during the Cold War — and the risk of apocalypse keeps growing ...
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Russian Attack Submarine Sank with Nuclear Missiles Never Recovered
The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets, a titanium-hulled "Mike-class" submarine, set the record for the deepest dive by a military ...
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Russia's Atomic Nightmare: 100 Missing 'Suitcase' Mini Nuclear Weapons
The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) also published a report in September 1997 that quoted former Russian national security ...
Putin Keeps Threatening to Use Nuclear Weapons. Would He?
Last week the president of Russia appeared to lower the threshold for his country’s use of nuclear weapons. It wasn’t subtle, ...
Satellite photos show failed Russian missile test
The RS-28 Sarmat, a vaunted leg of Russia's nuclear strategy, appears to have suffered a fourth failed launch test on ...
Putin revises his nuclear doctrine, but have his red lines shifted?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is fond of nuclear saber-rattling: On the eve of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...
Putin Declares Changes to Russian Nuclear Doctrine
President Vladimir V. Putin heightened his warnings against the West, asserting that Russia should be permitted to use ...
Russia Issues New Nuclear Warning to US at UN: 'Suicide Venture'
According to Tass, a Russian state news agency, Lavrov, speaking at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, warned Washington, ...
Europe Shrugs Off Russia’s Latest Nuclear Threats
The saber rattling from Russia has come hard and fast in recent days, but European leaders barely seemed to flinch.
Russia revises its nuclear doctrine: Why West must take Putin’s warning seriously
The revision lowers the threshold of use of nuclear weapons by Russia. It is a warning to the West not to escalate the ...