Nuclear Weapons

The debate around nuclear weapons has been dormant in recent years.. Now the issue is back at the forefront of global consciousness. A photo of the Ukrainian flag. Credit: Max Kukurudziak / unsplash The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought many issues to the forefront. Issues which for many, including…

GENEVA: Russian President Vladimir Putin is using nuclear “blackmail” to keep the international community from interfering in his Ukraine invasion, the head of the Nobel prize-winning group ICAN said. “This is one of the scariest moments really when it comes to nuclear weapons,“ Beatrice Fihn, who leads the International Campaign…

Updated 4 days ago · Published on 9 Mar 2022 10:00AM · Russia's President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to use nuclear weapons in his invasion of Ukraine, says an expert, but 'it is not ruled out'. – EPA pic, March 9, 2022. RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin is using nuclear “blackmail”…

Ukrainian warning of Russian ‘blackmail’ Russian President Vladimir Putin is using nuclear weapons as blackmail against the West following his invasion of Ukrainian, according to the country's former deputy prime minister. Oleh Rybachuk said the situation in Ukraine was heartbreaking but sanctions weren't enough of a deterrent for advancing Russian…

Senator Angus King (I-ME) said Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that NATO implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would be “dangerous” because the Russian would see it as an escalation and potentially use nuclear weapons in response. King said, “I think a no-fly zone is dangerous because it would…

As the Cold War sputtered to an end and the Soviet Union imploded, American policymakers were concerned with one thing above all others: securing the giant arsenal of nuclear weapons that Moscow controlled. The Bush administration’s biggest fear was that control over the stockpile would become a casualty of a…

Dominic Raab has dismissed fears that Vladimir Putin will use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine crisis, calling his threats “rhetoric and brinkmanship”. The Russian president alarmed the world by putting his arsenal on high alert – and, overnight, the Kremlin is reported to have claimed that Ukraine is developing a…

A security officer talks in a part of the Uranim Conversion Facility, just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, on March 30, 2005. While the world’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, the Biden administration has been racing forward with other global powers towards restoring the 2015 international nuclear deal…

People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on February 27, 2022, after North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" according to the South's military. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) SEOUL, South Korea: North…

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