Nuclear Weapons

A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said on Monday that “the number of operational nuclear weapons started to rise as countries’ long-term force modernization and expansion plans progressed.” The increase in nuclear arsenals has raised eyebrows worldwide, as well as in the Middle East, particularly with…

KEY POINTSVladimir Putin announced in March that nuclear weapons would be deployed in Belarus.The Russian president said on Friday they would be moved as soon as storage facilities are made ready in early July.Mr Putin's nuclear move is being watched closely by both the US and its NATO allies in…

Special counsel Jack Smith, who has pursued criminal charges against Donald Trump, has said his team would seek 'a speedy trial'. His statement to reporters followed an indictment against the embattled former president getting unsealed, which included 37 federal charges related to the mishandling of confidential national security documents including…

Donald Trump took classified documents including information on nuclear weapons in the US and secret plans to attack a foreign country, according to a 49-page federal indictment unsealed Friday afternoon. The former US president, alongside a military valet, now faces a sweeping 37-count felony indictment related to the mishandling of…

Belarusian opposition decries move as an attempt to blackmail the West as Ukraine steps up offensive By AP 9 June 2023, 6:17 pm Edit MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow will deploy some of its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus next month, a move that the…

Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus after special storage facilities are ready on July 7-8, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, Moscow's first move of such bombs outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. More than 15 months into the biggest land war in Europe…

Washington —  The United States, responding to remarks made by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen earlier in the week, said on Tuesday that the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States is not an effort to spread nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific…

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has rejected his Belarusian counterpart's proposal to join the Russia-Belarus "Union State," calling the offer a "joke." The developments come after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview released on Sunday that if other countries wanted to join the pact between Russia and Belarus, there…

The US has called on South Africa to use its influence to persuade Russia to return to compliance with the New START Treaty between America and Russia which limits the nuclear missile stockpiles of the two countries and allows them to monitor each other’s nuclear facilities.  “Russia needs to hear…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, claimed that nations who side with Russia in its war against Ukraine will be given nuclear weapons. Lukashenko has long been a staunch supporter of Putin, most recently lending military support to Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine,…