Nukes

Last Friday, as Russian troops seized control of Europe’s nuclear power plant and Russian missiles rained down on civilian areas across Ukraine, Russia’s parliament passed a new law banning “fake news” about the country’s armed forces and its invasion of Ukraine. In a particularly Orwellian twist, stating the truth plainly—that…

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to celebrate International Women's Day, in Moscow. Photo / AP Russia's invasion of Ukraine has entered its 13th day, with Moscow troops ramping up attacks on several major cities, including Kyiv. An air alert has been declared today in and around the capital city, with…

As heavy fighting raged across much of Ukraine on Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin upped his psychological war game. Russian state media warned in an unsubstantiated report that Ukraine had been prepping a “plutonium-based dirty bomb nuclear weapon” at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant now in Russian hands, according to…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russian artillery fire struck Ukraine's largest nuclear plant, sparking a fire hours after international atomic regulators warned that combat at the facility could wreak havoc, according to Ukraine authorities. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it was aware of the incident and…

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The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists recently estimated that Russia has 4,477 nuclear warheads, of which 1,588 are deployed on ballistic missiles, on long-range bombers, or on submarines, ready to launch on a moment’s notice. Last week, Russian forces captured the Chernobyl site, presumably to open the highly contaminated “Chernobyl Exclusion…

VIENNA—The U.S. and Iran on Thursday were closing in on an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, although officials from both countries warned final issues still needed to be nailed down in the coming hours. After weeks of intense negotiations in Vienna involving the U.S. and Iran, and Britain,…

Seeking to avoid escalating nuclear tensions with Russia, the Biden Administration on Wednesday postponed a long-planned military test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. The decision was a direct response to Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly directing Russia’s nuclear forces to go on a high alert status following his Feb.…

The first nuclear bomb meant to kill humans exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, Aug. 6, 1945. Three days later, a second bomb detonated over Nagasaki. The death toll for the two bomb blasts — an estimated 214,000 people — and destruction wrought by these weapons was unprecedented in the history of…

Either out of political desperation or military conceit, Vladimir Putin is playing the nuclear card in the crisis spawned by his invasion of Ukraine. Putin’s war has taken on global dimensions, even though the Ukrainians are the only ones fending off Russian forces on the ground. In Putin’s incendiary harangue…