Nuclear Weapons

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For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 19:29 Lask air base (Poland), Mar 1: Despite Russia's threats, the chief of the NATO on Tuesday said that the alliance sees no need to change its nuclear weapons alert level. Speaking…

When the Cold War ended, early in the 1990s, the biggest mistake the West made was failing to quickly pursue worldwide nuclear disarmament when we had the chance. Now, we are paying the price. On Sunday, February 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin placed his country’s nuclear arsenal on high alert.…

What did Vladimir Putin say about Russian nuclear weapons?Russia’s president summoned the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, and military chief of staff, Valery Gerasimov, to a public meeting on Sunday and ordered them to “transfer the deterrence forces” – a reference to nuclear weapons – “of the Russian army to a…

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Who remembers what it was like to live under the constant threat of nuclear annihilation? For half a century, Moscow and Washington glared and growled at each other, eyeball-to-eyeball. Each sat on an enormous arsenal of world-destroying weapons. War was always a hair-trigger away, hanging on a single miscalculation, a…

President Biden has already declared that neither U.S. nor NATO military forces will be deployed to the conflict sparked by Russian forces pouring across Ukraine’s borders. The dangers of escalation are simply too great, especially given the threats that volatile Russian President Vladimir Putin has made regarding the use of…

Belarus is set to make amendments to its non-nuclear constitution to allow for nuclear weapons after a referendum was held on Sunday amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Belarus Central Election Commission said that voter turnout stood at 78.61 percent, of which 65.2 percent voted in favor of the change.…

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Ukraine President Zelensky says that Ukraine will go back to having nuclear weapons like they did before 1994 unless the US lives to the guarantees of protection made in the Budapest Memo. Ukraine had 1000 soviet nuclear weapons. What did Ukraine keep that would short cut a return to being…