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, ...
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Kremlin downplays new nuclear weapons doctrine, easing fears
Following recent outrage over Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine, the Kremlin is now tempering fears regarding Moscow's ...
Russia revises nuclear policy; North Korea vows never to give up weapons
As Russia made progress in revising its nuclear policy amid its war with Ukraine, North Korea vowed to never give up its own ...
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 ...
Japan's New Leader Pushes Nuclear Weapons and Controversial 'Asian NATO'
Only a formal regional military alliance can prevent war in the region, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said recently.
"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 ...
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 ...
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Perspective: The missiles of October redux
In October of 1962, President John F. Kennedy faced off with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev over the Soviets’ emplacement of nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles off the American coast. There were any ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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.