According to the statement, the fact that certain nuclear-weapon states build or expand permanent military bases in sensitive areas around other nuclear-weapon states, flex military muscle to exert pressure, or carry out hostile acts that threaten the core security interests of other countries has b...
Russia is carrying out a comprehensive review and reform of its nuclear defence doctrine and forces. Its goal is to deploy a smaller, more modern, accurate and reliable deterrent to guarantee its national security and maintain its global influence, while converting the excess military atomic power ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia is responding to Ukraine's announcement that it would seek to regain nuclear weapons. Speaking via video link at a Geneva disarmament conference, Lavrov said Ukraine possessed "Soviet technologies and the means to deliver such weapons."...
MOSCOW-- Russia has tested an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that can't be intercepted, President Vladimir Putin announced Thursday, marking a technological breakthrough that would dramatically increaseRussia's military capabilityand boost the Kremlin's global position. Speaking in a state-of-...
“Simply put, these missiles, equipped with the most powerful warheads, will give their creator a new deterrent, which nuclear weapons are to this day,” Litovkin notes. According to him, the ‘Zircon’ was initially created as a countermeasure for aircraft carrier groups that consist of up ...
Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine inherited nuclear weapons following the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse, but returned them to Russia. South Africa secretly developed but subsequently dismantled its small number of nuclear warheads. Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program prior to the 1991 Persian Gu...
The deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus would put them closer to potential targets in Ukraine and NATO members in Europe.
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that while Russia's threat to resort to nuclear weapons must be taken seriously, the international community has made clear that it won't be daunted by them. "It's not the first time (Russian President Vladimir...
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said that NATO's newer members are now potential targets for Moscow and at risk of possible revenge strikes using nuclear weapons in the event of a conflict, theTASSnews agency reports. Speaking to reporters, Medvedev said every new NATO memb...
Besides Poseidon, President Vladimir Putin announced another five weapons of strategic deterrence in March 2018. They will guarantee powerful Russian retaliation to any nuclear surprise attack and will make the US global missile defense senseless, the Izvestia said. ...