Nuclear Weapons

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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Envelope Facebook Share After Russia recently raised the threat of using nuclear weapons in its conflict against Ukraine, sales of backyard bunkers jumped. Those threats also led to corresponding search spikes on terms such as “fallout shelter,”“bunker,” and “underground bunker.” During the Cold War, bomb shelters were considered a near…

In an era defined by climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, one apocalyptic potential fell off many Americans’ radars: nuclear weapons. But in the bitter February twilight, Russian President Vladimir Putin put them squarely back in the center of discourse when he invaded Ukraine—and appeared to threaten anyone who intervened…

For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now   For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS   | Published: Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 16:19 Moscow, Mar 02: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that if a third World War were to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive. World War III…

Published: 4:00pm, 2 Mar, 2022 Updated: 1:08pm, 9 Mar, 2022 Read More