Russian nuclear weaponsThis study evaluates the role of tactical nuclear weapons (TNWs) for NATO today. Historically, TNWs fulfill five objectives. First, they provide a deterrent by denial capability. Second, TNWs serve to deter TNWs by other countries. Third, as the most 'useable' of ...
Even outside the context of these events, this statement, Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has long been raising the question of the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of Belarus." "There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States have been d...
Peskov's remarks came after three U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News that President Joe Biden had approved Ukraine's use of the long-range American-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System -- colloquially known as the ATACMS -- to hit targets ...
The internal discussions about Lance provide an interesting example of the trade-off between different weapon capabilities. Thearmy recommendeddeploying Lance to South Korea because of "Korea as the most likely area requiring use of ground nuclear weapons," and because building extra storage on Guam ...
The use of theArmy Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS, came as Russian President Vladimir Putinformally lowered the thresholdfor using nuclear weapons, opening the door to a potential nuclear response by Moscow to even a conventional attack by any nation supported by a nu...
In the wake of the British move, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow would respond by placing tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. He noted that in this respect, Moscow’s actions do not differ from those of the US, which has stationed nuclear weapons in five Euro...
Recently, the US president Joe Biden approved Ukraine’s use of American-manufactured long-range weapons, such as the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), inside Russia in response to the mobilisation of several thousand North Korean troops in the Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops are holding...
The reversal was only partial, allowing for strikes in Russia from Kharkiv, where Russian forces are pressing forward in a major offensive. Ukraine is also prohibited from using the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) or long-range artillery to hit Russia, and from hitting civilia...
Biden veered into talk about Ukraine at the end of his standard fundraising remarks, saying that Putin was “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.” “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy an...
The US will allow Ukraine to use American-supplied longer-range weapons to conduct strikes inside Russian territory, a long-sought request by Kyiv. It’s not clear if there would be limits on Ukraine’s use of the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, as there have been on other U.S...