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Russia test-fired missiles over distances of thousands of miles on Tuesday to simulate a "massive" nuclear response to an enemy first strike. "Given the growing geopolitical tensions and the ...
Russia will keep sending nuclear warning signals to its enemies in the West until they get the message, an influential foreign policy hawk said on Wednesday. Security expert Sergei Karaganov has ...
Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical arsenal, had been accused of using poison gas in Ukraine.
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.
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.
Between November 2017 and 26 February 2018, Russia conducted four tests of the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, launched from other test sites. [4] [5] According to the United States intelligence community, only the flight test in November 2017 from Pankovo test site was moderately successful with all of the others ending in failure.
Putin stated that together the weapons provided Russia with a strategic capability that was impossible for America to intercept, restoring Russia's nuclear deterrence capability in the face of American technological developments following America's withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. [3] The "super weapons" named were:
The Russian regional governor confirmed the attack and said 1,200 people were evacuated. Ukrainian forces struck a major Russian ammunition depot this weekend, causing a massive explosion that was ...