NEWS US-Ukraine stalemate ove·r nuclear weapons Washington. Ukraine's opposition to the complete relinquishment of strategic nu- clear weapons located on its soil is harden- ing, and the process began even before the latest Russian crisis increased its security concerns, according to US ...
The war in Ukraine has plunged relations between Russia and the West to their most dangerous point since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the United States and the Soviet Union came close to a nuclear confrontation. Russia last year said it was deploying...
Hans Kristensen, anuclear weaponsexpert at theFederation of American Scientistswho was briefed by the Pentagon on the bomb earlier this week, told Defense News the weapon will incorporate the same warheads from the 1980s- and 1990s-era B61-7s, transplanted into the same style casing and tail ...
The nuclear-armed North last weektest-firedwhat it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). That was Kim Jong Un's first weapons test since he wasaccused by U.S. and Ukrainian officialsof sending soldiers to help support Russia's ongoing ...
LONDON -- The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it defeateda Ukrainian ATACMS attackin the western Bryansk region, shortly before the Kremlin updated its nuclear weapons doctrine to allow for nuclear strikes in response to foreign ballistic miss...
September 29:Inan op-edin the news paperDe Standaard, Belgian MP Diek van der Maelen calls for a withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Europe. July 13:BelgianHouse of Representatives resolution calls for withdrawalof NATO nukes. June 30:Ukraine says it will not permit nuclear weapons if it ...
He pushed for the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or the Star Wars program, in which nuclear-powered lasers placed in space would zap nuclear weapons. The program was an expensive flop, in part because the whole concept was too fantastical, said Laura Grego, an astrophysicist ...
Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks in Rome on Saturday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. The talks represent a milestone in the fraught relations between the two nations over Iran’s program, which is enriching uranium close to weapons-grade levels...
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has again called on the United States to deploy nuclear weapons to Poland as a deterrent to Russia.
The change in strategy is being presented by the Biden administration as based on concerns about "possible coordinated nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea" and the expansion of Chinese nuclear weapons stockpile. Which is a false proposition intended to serve and disguise the lat...