nuclear weapons

Iran could make enough materials to produce a nuclear bomb in just "12 days" a senior US official claimed on Tuesday. Preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons in Tehran has been a strategic priority in Washington for decades. However, successive...

The CIA chief met his Russian counterpart in Turkey on Monday. The Kremlin verified that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns met face-to-face with Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR RF), in the...

Multiple senior American officials have issued a warning concerning conversations held by senior Russian military leaders over the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, increasing concerns in Washington and allied capitals. An official report by The New York Times said...

Greece contributes to NATO fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons, a report by the highly respected Federation Of American Scientists revealed on Tuesday. The report by defense expert Hans Kristensen notes that earlier this year, NATO disclosed that seven...

Why are some countries allowed to have nuclear weapons while others cannot? The Russia-Ukraine crisis has the world on edge, as countries with nuclear bombs like Russia threaten to unleash their destruction. But who are the so-called nuclear powers? Nuclear...

President Biden has warned the world could face “Armageddon” if Vladimir Putin uses a tactical nuclear weapon to try to win the war in Ukraine. The US President made his most outspoken remarks to date about the threat of nuclear...

The U.S. warned Russia at the weekend against the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine by threatening Moscow with "catastrophic consequences." In an interview on September 25th, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan responded to Vladimir Putin’s promise to use...

According to the official news agency KCNA, North Korea has approved a law declaring itself to be a nuclear weapons state. Kim Jong-un, the country's leader, described the choice as "irreversible" and rejected the idea of any denuclearization negotiations, the...

Russian state TV, controlled by President Vladimir Putin, has been threatening European countries with a nuclear holocaust for their support for Ukraine. On Sunday, one of Russia’s top propagandists threatened Britain with annihilation by nuclear strike twice on his prime-time...

NATO and Russia's strategy on nuclear weapons are clearly miles apart. NATO’s current nuclear policy, based on its 2010 Strategic Concept and the 2012 Deterrence and Defense Posture Review, focuses on credible deterrence and defense in a mix of nuclear,...