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Russia is deploying long-range, precision cruise missiles to the western Atlantic that American defense officials say will allow Moscow to target Washington and other East Coast cities with conventional or nuclear attacks. Moscow is adding Kalibr land attack cruise missiles …
In 2019, the Russian garrison in Moscow’s Kaliningrad exclave will get a powerful new rocket, the Kremlin announced. Russian ground troops in the Western Military District will receive Iskander-M ballistic missiles in 2019, “completing” the “rearmament of the missile formations …
It has been universally recognised that the sole justification for having nuclear weapons is their deterrence value. If ever a nuclear bomb has to be used, it has destroyed its raison d’être. The initiation of a nuclear attack would mean …
The decision on whether or not to destroy the world came down to a humble Soviet duty officer early one morning in 1983. Stanislav Petrov was told by his computer that the United States had launched at least five intercontinental …
“North Korea and Iran, prospectively, are both very real challenges,” Eric Edelman, a former diplomat and Defense Department official, told CBN News. However, he noted they are far from the only nuclear threats to the US.”The biggest nuclear threat remains …
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said on Tuesday that he was willing to have a second summit with US president Donald Trump, but he paired the offer with a threat that if international sanctions against his country were not lifted, …
Russian President Vladimir Putin frequently boasts about this country’s new hypersonic nuclear weapons, intercontinental missiles capable of flying 20 times faster than the speed of sound. The Russian leader reminds the world again and again that because of these weapons …
They’re the pride of the US fleet: enormous 100,000 tonne, 333m long nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. But Beijing thinks they’re Washington’s achilles heel. Rear Admiral Lou Yuan has told an audience in Shenzhen that the ongoing disputes over the ownership of …
Historians look at this, and see, like Eugene O’Neill, the past happening over and over again. They look at the world and see the same fault lines as 1914. Then they said war would never happen; Germany and Britain were …