Nuclear Weapons

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday endorsed Russia's nuclear deterrent policy which allows him to use atomic weapons in response to a conventional strike targeting the nation's critical government and military infrastructure. By including a non-nuclear attack as a possible trigger for Russian nuclear retaliation, the document appears to send a…

Here's What You Need To Remember: Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, particularly tactical nuclear weapons, are seen as an asymmetric means of offsetting India’s advantage in conventional forces. Even if a Pakistani Army offensive into India fails and the Strike Corps counterattacked, tactical nuclear weapons could blunt their spearheads, ideally halting them…

Key point: Israel maintains a high-tech and tough military. But it also has the ultimate weapon. In a private email leaked to the public in September of 2016, former secretary of state and retired U.S. Army general Colin Powell alluded to Israel having an arsenal of “200 nuclear weapons.” While this number…

Key point: These weapons could be used to deter or destroy an invading Indian army. However, they also risk being used too easily or kicking off a larger nuclear exchange. Of all the countries in the world, just nine are believed to have developed nuclear weapons. One member of this…

Here's What You Need To Remember: Taiwan’s nuclear program was under careful surveillance by the United States, which recognized Taiwan as the rightful Chinese government and protected the country from the mainland. Still, Washington was afraid a Taiwanese bomb would unnecessarily enrage China, and by 1966 took steps to prevent…

Valerie Plame photographed in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photos: Benjamin RasmussenValerie Plame worked for the CIA and tangled with Bush. Now she wants to fight Trump from Congress.Ten Thousand Waves Spa is a pagoda of Zen steam on the New Mexico high desert. Behind the sliding doors…

Skip to content Group used over 200 shell companies to channel over $2.5 billion in assets to DPRK Is the Trump Administration finally coming around to the notion that disarming North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is never going to happen? Well, at least not while the Kims are still in power.Since…

There's plenty of ammunition against the administration on the weapons front, but this rumor-based story hardly explodes.The Washington Post recently published an article which quotes an unnamed “senior administration official” and two unnamed “former officials familiar with the deliberations” as saying that during the course of a “meeting of senior…

South Korean soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, on the South Korean island of Ganghwa A United Nations investigation into a recent exchange of gunfire between North Korea and South Korea has determined that both countries violated the armistice that ended the…

May 23, 2020 | 8:23am | Updated May 23, 2020 | 8:24am The Trump Administration is actively considering the possibility of conducting a nuclear test, something the United States has not done since 1992. The topic was broached at a May 15 meeting of top officials from various national security…