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Russia is one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" (NWS) under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which Russia ratified (as the Soviet Union) in 1968. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of Soviet-era nuclear warheads remained on the territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
Comparative fireball radii for a selection of nuclear weapons. [citation needed] Contrary to the image, which may depict the initial fireball radius, the maximum average fireball radius of Castle Bravo, a 15-megatonne yield surface burst, is 3.3 to 3.7 km (2.1 to 2.3 mi), [6] [7] and not the 1.42 km displayed in the image.
It is estimated to have 6–18 low yield nuclear weapons (August 2012 estimate). [15] On 9 October 2006, North Korea achieved its first nuclear detonation . On 25 May 2009, North Korea conducted a second test of nuclear weapons at the same location as the original test.
Russia has split up the naval flotilla that docked in Havana earlier this week, sending its nuclear submarine back north to the Atlantic and the rest of its warships south, where they are expected ...
Russia's Vladimir Putin is threatening to use nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine. The U.S. response need not be nuclear in return.
Russia, which inherited the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, has the world's biggest store of nuclear warheads. Putin controls about 5,580 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American ...
Russia State Rocket Center Makeyev 9,000 km 35,300 kg 1x 450kt Inactive N/A No Delta III submarine 900m 11 R-29RM: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 8,300 km 40,300 kg 4x 200kt Inactive 1982 Yes Delta IV submarine: 550m 12 R-29RMU Sineva: Russia Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant: 11,547 km 40 300 kg 4x 500kt Active 2004 Yes (4)
The mysterious threat Turner was warning about turns out to do with Russia’s plan to put a nuclear weapon in space, potentially using it against satellites, ABC News, Bloomberg, CNN, and others ...