Nukes

Key point: New Delhi's Su-30 jets are very formidable and armed with nuclear weapons they will play a greater deterrence role. The question is how Pakistan will respond.India’s nuclear command has begun receiving fighter jets armed with the country’s most advanced, supersonic cruise missile.According to media reports, India’s Strategic Forces Command…

“I have ninety minutes to stop a nuclear bomb from going off, so I’ve given up on arresting and just started throwing people off buildings,” I told the RPS hivemind. This was a half truth. I’d been trying to figure out how to throw people off buildings all day. That…

Tensions between the US and Iran remain high after the US assassination of a top Iranian military commander and a retaliatory strike by Iran on bases housing US troops in Iraq.Any conflict between Tehran and Washington would be bad, but the outcome would also be shaped by Russia, which has…

The Trump administration is seeking to start new denuclearization negotiations with North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un, White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien told Axios."We've been letting them know, through various channels, that we would like to get those back on track and to implement Chairman Kim's…

All through the cold war, there was a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in play. Nuclear powers like the United States and the Soviet Union would hide submarines armed with nuclear missiles underwater. The other side would try to know where they were so they …

A full-scale nuclear war could trigger a global famine. Disaster planner David Denkenberger has created a diet that might save humanity in that scenario.He suggests eating foods that can grow without much light, like mushrooms and seaweed.He also highlights creative ways to make protein out of natural gases in the air.Visit…

BERLIN (Reuters) - German exports to Iran roughly halved in the first 11 months of 2019 compared with the same period in the previous year due to U.S. sanctions, preliminary data from the Statistics Office showed on Friday. Between January and November 2019…

In the wake of the US assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and the retaliatory missile strike that followed, Iran-watchers have warned that the country could deploy cyberattacks as well, perhaps even targeting American critical infrastructure lik…

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday oversaw military exercises from a naval vessel in the Black Sea near Crimea, including the test launch of a hypersonic air-launched Kinzhal missile, the Kremlin said. A pair of MiG-31K intercept…

Image copyrightNurPhotoImage caption Protestors in Tehran take part in an anti-US rally following the killing of Qasem Soleimani The US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Iran's retaliatory missile attack have heightened fears of a conflict…