Nuclear weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed allegations by the United States regarding Russia's purported deployment of nuclear weapons in space. Putin, alongside Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, unequivocally denied the U.S. assertion…

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus is a reminder to the West that it could not inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Speaking at Russia's flagship economic forum in St Petersburg,…

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons some of which are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.…

United States Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has issued a warning to NATO and its allies that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use a tactical nuclear weapon in a "managed" escalation of his war in Ukraine. Sherman, the…

U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns has held talks with Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service in the Turkish capital Ankara on the consequences of any use of nuclear weapons.

The United States has accused China of showing no interest in discussing steps to reduce the risk posed by nuclear weapons after Chinese leader Xi Jinping signaled that Beijing would strengthen its strategic deterrent.

The United States, Japan and South Korea have warned of an "unparalleled" scale of response if North Korea conducts a seventh nuclear test.

Pope Francis has led leaders of world religions in a peace appeal to politicians to avert the threat of nuclear war in Ukraine.

The United Kingdom and Israel will work together in preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power, the foreign ministers of the two countries wrote in a joint article. Liz Truss, the British Foreign Secretary, and Yair Lapid, Israel’s…

The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has called on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, declaring that nuclear weapons must be eliminated from the world and a new era of dialogue, trust and…