Nukes

Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield and will move towards deploying the weapon, President Vladimir Putin says. The test, alongside a nuclear drill last week, sends a message that Russia, in Putin’s words, will never bow to…

President Vladimir Putin said Russia has successfully tested the nuclear-powered, nuclear-weapon capable Burevestnik cruise missile and is seeking ways to deploy it at a time when the Kremlin's war in Ukraine drags on. The Kremlin published a video on October 26 of a meeting between Putin and Chief of the…

The United States has deployed the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying guided-missile destroyers to the South American coast, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Friday. According to Sean Parnell, assistant defense secretary for public affairs, the strike group has been sent to the region to…

Warning: This story contains spoilers from A House of Dynamite, which began streaming on Netflix October 24. A nuclear missile is barrelling toward Chicago, and the only people who know about it have just 18 minutes to react. Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping thriller A House of Dynamite captures those 18 minutes…

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Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (R) ★★★ Kathryn Bigelow’s first movie in eight years “takes the unthinkable and puts it right in front of us,” said Stephanie Zacharek in Time . A nuclear missile fired by an unknown overseas source has been spotted headed toward Chicago, and America’s crisis response team,…

A Russian propogandist has said Putin would 'applaud' as the UK burned. (Image: GETTY/AP) The world will ‘applaud’ if Putin wipes out Britain in a nuclear strike, according to his leading TV propagandist, Vladimir Solovyov. The primetime state television host - paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to…

Russia on Tuesday said it was awaiting clearer signals from the United States regarding the potential supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, warning that such weapons could theoretically carry nuclear warheads Russia on Tuesday said it was awaiting clearer signals from the United States regarding the potential supply of Tomahawk…

At a memorial service in 2022, veteran Air Force Capt. Monte Watts bumped into a fellow former Minuteman III nuclear missile operator, who told him that she had non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Watts knew other missileers with similar cancers. But the connection really hit home later that same January day, when the…

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and Washington but will not change the situation on the battlefield, where the Russian army is making slow but steady advances. The potential supply of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles…