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 ...
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Nuclear threat: Russia’s chilling warning to the US
Russia has threatened to resume nuclear missile tests if the United States does the same, according to Sergey Ryabkov, Russia ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
"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 ...
Putin's Much-Feared Satan 2 Nuclear Missile Failed 4 Out of 5 Tests
High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile ...
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 ...
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.