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The head of Russia's nuclear testing site said on Tuesday his secretive facility was ready to resume nuclear tests "at any moment" if Moscow gave the order, in rare comments likely to fuel ...
Ukraine struck a major ammunition depot in Russia's Krasnodar Krai region. A video of the strike circulating on social media showed a huge explosion at the site. ... In Other News.
Putin has previously spoken of the dangers of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, but his nuclear warning on Thursday was one of his most explicit. Putin warns West of risk of nuclear ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for his country's use of nuclear weapons Tuesday, after the U.S. allowed Ukraine to strike inside Russia using American missiles.
ABC News later reported that the threat concerned attempts by Russia to launch a nuclear anti-satellite weapon. [6] The deployment of an orbital nuclear weapon would violate the Outer Space Treaty. According to officials, the United States does not have countermeasures against anti-satellite weapons. [7]
The Russian Federation is known to possess or have possessed three types of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear weapons, biological weapons, and chemical weapons.It is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and one of the four countries wielding a nuclear triad.
Arms control experts are warning the stage is set for a costly new three-way arms race with Russia and China. The last remaining treaty between Russia and the U.S. limiting nuclear weapons ...
In early March, hostilities reached the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe and the fifth biggest globally. [14] This nuclear plant houses an amount of nuclear material equivalent to 20 Chernobyls. [15] On 4 March 2022, fighting led to a fire in an auxiliary building.