The proliferation of nuclear weapons and Iran’s recent attack on Israel are two reasons we should upgrade our missile defense capabilities and ensure that Iran never gets nuclear weapons.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that the military would hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons — the first time such an exercise has been publicly announced by Moscow. A look at tactical nuclear weapons and the part they play in the Kremlin’s political messaging. WHAT ARE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Unlike nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles that […]
By The Associated Press Russia’s Defense Ministry said Monday that the military would hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons — the first time such an exercise has been publicly announced by Moscow. A look at tactical nuclear weapons and the part they play in the Kremlin’s political messaging. WHAT ARE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS? Unlike nuclear-tipped […]
Around half the North Korean missiles launched by Russia on Ukraine have exploded in midair due to malfunction, according to the Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office.The prosecutor's office provided that estimate to Reuters in a story published on Tuesday, citing examined debris from what they said were North Korean ballistic missiles fired by Russia between December and February.The United States, South Korea and other countries have accused Pyongyang of providing Russia with missiles,...
Russia will hold tactical nuclear weapons drills in response to recent comments by France and the UK, the Kremlin said.
The U.S. later said it would not be changing its nuclear posture in response, underscoring the continued belief that Russia is unlikely to actually use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
The Pentagon has not seen a change to Russia's disposition of its strategic nuclear forces, it said on Monday, despite what it called "irresponsible rhetoric" from Moscow detailing plans for exercises involving the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons. Russia said on Monday it would hold military drills that will include practicing the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons after what Moscow said were threats from France, Britain and the United States. It said the exercises were ordered by...
Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine warUkraine war – live updatesRussia has threatened to strike British military facilities and ordered its military to hold battlefield nuclear weapons drills in a move the Kremlin described as a response to comments from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on western troops fighting in Ukraine and from the British foreign secretary, David Cameron, on using British-supplied weapons against...
The General Staff of Russia's Defence Ministry, on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, has commenced preparations for exercises aimed at "increasing the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to carry out combat missions," reports the Russian Defense Ministry.During these drills, the Defence Ministry intends to practice issues related to "the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons" (also known as tactical nuclear weapons). The purpose is to "unconditionally ensure the...
JACKSON, Miss. – U.S. military units trained for domestic nuclear forensics missions with interagency partners during Exercise Prominent Hunt in Jackson, Mississippi.
Russia's top diplomat in the United States has told Newsweek that his country was compelled to conduct snap nuclear exercises after what Moscow viewed as a series of destabilizing steps taken by Washington and its allies in relation to the ongoing war in Ukraine."Training events announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense have not arisen out of the blue," Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov told Newsweek. "This is a forced measure in response to the impudent and aggressive policy of the...
The Russian government is warning Ukraine that Kyiv's new fleet of F-16 fighter jets will be treated as a "nuclear-capable" threat.Ukraine's military said last week that it would begin operating the U.S.-made jets as soon as Monday. Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Ilya Yevlash said that the planes would be ready for battle after Orthodox Easter, which was Sunday.The F-16s—provided by Western allies including Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium—will represent a much-needed update to...