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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.
US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945–2014. The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon ("RDS-1") in 1949. This crash project was developed partially with information obtained via the atomic spies at the United States' Manhattan Project during and after World War II. The Soviet Union was the second nation to have developed ...
Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine multiple times since he ordered the full-scale invasion of the country on Feb. 24, 2022, and Russia has repeatedly warned the West that if ...
Russia says it will make changes to the doctrine that sets out the circumstances in which it might use nuclear weapons. WHAT DOES RUSSIA'S EXISTING NUCLEAR DOCTRINE SAY? The current doctrine was ...
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 ...
Before, the doctrine dictated Russia would use nuclear weapons only in response to a nuclear attack or a nonnuclear attack that threatened the state's existence. Russia first issued the doctrine ...
On 7 December, Russia and Belarus signed an agreement offering security guarantees to Belarus including nuclear security and the possible use of Russian nuclear weapons to repel aggressions. [60] Two days later Belarusian President Lukashenko confirmed the presence of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus, including Russia's Oreshnik missile ...
Russia's current published nuclear doctrine, set out in a 2020 decree by Putin, says Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens ...