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t. e. 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.
Weapons of mass destruction. Ukraine, formerly a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922–1991, once hosted Soviet nuclear weapons and delivery systems on its territory. [1] The former Soviet Union had its nuclear program expanded to only four of its republics: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.
The Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба, romanized: Tsar'-bomba, IPA: [t͡sarʲ ˈbombə], lit. ' Tsar bomb'; code name: Ivan[5] or Vanya), also known by the alphanumerical designation " AN602 ", was a thermonuclear aerial bomb, and the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. [6][7] The Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov ...
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 ...
Soviet atomic bomb project. Probable location of first Soviet nuclear test, 1949. The Soviet atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons during and after World War II. [1][2] Although the Soviet scientific community discussed the ...
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 ...
2DG-8M diesel engine. 1,000 hp (750 kW) Operational. range. 300 km (190 mi) Maximum speed. 55 km/h (34 mph) The Obiekt 279, or Object 279, (Объект 279) was a Soviet experimental heavy tank developed at the end of 1959. This special purpose tank was intended to fight on cross country terrain, inaccessible to conventional tanks, acting as a ...
t. e. Nuclear weapons delivery is the technology and systems used to place a nuclear weapon at the position of detonation, on or near its target. Several methods have been developed to carry out this task. Strategic nuclear weapons are used primarily as part of a doctrine of deterrence by threatening large targets, such as cities.