Nukes

US President Joe Biden said he was confident there would be support in Congress for additional aid to Ukraine, even after Republicans — who have vowed greater oversight of the spending — take control of the House in January.  European Union diplomats were optimistic they could reach a deal as…

Russia and Ukraine traded blame Monday over shelling near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned that the bombing over the weekend had come “dangerously close” to hitting key safety and security systems. Such back-and-forth over who is creating danger around the plant, which…

Russia’s annual ‘Grom’ military drill featured nuclear submarines, ballistic missiles, and long-range strategic bombers...Read More

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — NATO and Russia’s military alike staged planned annual nuclear exercises Wednesday as the Russian president repeated the unfounded claim that Ukraine plans to set off a radioactive “dirty bomb.” On the battlefront, Russian forces pounded more than 40 Ukrainian villages over the past day. Russian President…

published : 26 Oct 2022 at 21:45 Russian President Vladimir Putin oversees the training of the strategic deterrence forces, troops responsible for responding to threats of nuclear war. MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday surveyed drills carried out by his nuclear-capable forces as Moscow pressed unfounded claims to India…

NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister says that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu briefed him on the evolving situation in Ukraine, including his concerns about the use of a “dirty bomb.” Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said in a tweet after his phone conversation with Shoigu on Wednesday that “I reiterated…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday monitored drills by his country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles. Defense minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin that the exercise was intended to simulate a “massive nuclear strike” by Russia in retaliation for a nuclear attack on…

VLADIMIR Putin has ordered drills involving Russia's nuclear forces in which they simulated a massive strike on the West. The barrage of ballistic and cruise missiles fired in the "Operation Thunder" exercises comes as a US official has warned of "troubling developments" involving Russia's nuclear arsenal. 10 Vladimir Putin was…

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday monitored drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces involving multiple practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles, in a show of force amid the heightened tensions with the West over the conflict in Ukraine. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin…

For the first time since North Korea began testing nuclear weapons in 2006, China and Russia this year vetoed a U.S.-led push for additional Security Council sanctions. North Korea has been carrying out weapons tests at an unprecedented pace this year, firing more than two dozen ballistic missiles, including one…