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Intelligence agencies of the United States and its allies are stepping up surveillance of Russian nuclear weapons in the wake of recent statements made by Moscow, reported Sputnik. “We’re watching it more closely,” one of the officials with access to …
[Editor’s note: This article is based on testimony the authors delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on Nuclear Strategy and Policy on September 20.] The United States faces the most complex configuration of questions about nuclear weapons since …
Russia has the right to defend itself if pushed and the threat of nuclear weapons is “is certainly not a bluff”, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said. Vladimir Putin warned last week that he would use “all the means …
The EU must take Vladimir Putin’s threats he could use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine seriously, the bloc’s foreign policy chief has said. Josep Borrell told the BBC’s Lyse Doucet that the war had reached a “dangerous moment”. …
Russia’s war in Ukraine seemed to have escalated this week when, in a videotaped address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the partial mobilization of the country’s military and made an indirect threat of nuclear weapons use. Anticipating …
The biggest threat to modernizing the nuclear triad is to not keep up sustained modernization funding, a panel of national security experts told a key Senate panel on Tuesday. The Air Force and the Navy are in the midst of …
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that any weapons in Moscow’s arsenal, including strategic nuclear weapons, could be used to defend territories incorporated in Russia from Ukraine. Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that referendums being …
After the Russian military collapse in and around Kharkiv Oblast, there is now renewed concern that Russian leaders could behave unpredictably and use nuclear weapons to halt the Ukrainian offensive, or to intimidate the leadership in Kyiv to settle the …
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) and the Department of Energy’s Counter Terrorism Operations Support (CTOS) Center for Radiological/Nuclear Training provided a primary screening class to Securing the Cities (STC), New Orleans from …
The growing ties between China and Russia are sparking new fears among U.S. war planners that the two nuclear powers will soon pose a unified nuclear threat to the United States, the Air Force general nominated to head the nation’s …
The threat of a nuclear blast might bring back echoes of the Cold War, widely considered to have ended over 30 years ago. But with tensions rising between Russia and NATO over Ukraine and unease between the U.S. and China …
The Kremlin has given a curt response when asked about Joe Biden’s warning that the Russian leader should not resort to weapons of mass destruction in his invasion of Ukraine. Biden was asked by CBS News about what his message …