What have nuclear weapons to do with QCD? The temperatures in nuclear explosions are too low to generate quark-gluon plasma (but only by a factor of 10 ). Perhaps what they have in common is that they were both invented by physicists. But please don't blame me for this harangue, ...
On 7 July, most of the world’s countries voted to ban nuclear weapons. None of them, however, actually have The Bomb. Countries that do – or rely on a nuclear weapons for defence – boycotted the vote. Despite this its backers argue that a treaty making nuclear...
Both Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and President Macron are the only people who have the power to 'pull the trigger' on their respective countries using their nuclear weapons. Image:Donald Trump and former NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg at a summit in 2019. Pic: Reuters What has b...
Tactical nuclear weapons can have a similar yield or greater — up to several times as powerful as the Nagasaki bomb — but they are often smaller and more portable. For instance, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed devices small enough to fit into a suitcase-sized container. Wh...
"There is nothing unusual here either: firstly, the United States have been doing this for decades. They have long ago deployed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allied countries, NATO countries, in Europe, in six states. If memory serves, this is Germany, Turke...
Which Nato countries are nuclear armed? Three members - the U.S., France and the United Kingdom – have nuclear weapons. Nato describes them, particularly those of the U.S., as "the supreme guarantee of the Alliance's security."
Tactical nuclear weapons have gained attention due to Russia’s losses in Ukraine and Putin’s nuclear threats. These weapons, smaller and shorter-ranged than strategic ones, are central to Russia’s military strategy. However, using them in Ukraine could worsen the conflict and damage Rus...
Countries have found nuclear weapons to be a very deadly tool that can cause immediate havoc among any nation. Both the desire of wanting to be the detonator of an atomic weapon and the fear of being on the wrong side of one has brought upon other nations the aspiration to create such we...
It said any use of nuclear weapons would have "unprecedented consequences" and that Moscow was using its nuclear threats mainly to deter NATO and other countries from intervening directly in Ukraine. What measures could the West take if Putin goes nuclear?
Which Countries Have Denuclearized? Many nations have agreed to decrease their stocks of nuclear weapons and components, but a number of regions havefully denuclearized. The Treaty of Tlatelolco became effective in 1968. It prohibited the development, testing, and any other use of nuclear weap...