"Iran has the ability to deploy nuclear weapons soon," former White House official Jed Babbin said in a Washington Times column on Sunday.

What is Putin’s nuclear weapons threat? On 24 February 2022, in a televised speech heralding the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin issued what was interpreted as a threat to use ...

Many foreign policy experts warn that if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it would be broadly destabilizing for the Middle East and nearby regions. A first-order concern is that Iran’s ...

Red China explodes atomic bomb TOKYO, Oct. 16, 1964 (UPI) -- Red China today exploded its first atomic bomb. It then immediately proposed a world conference to ban use of nuclear weapons.The ...

The byproduct of nuclear energy is still associated with atomic bombs or nuclear meltdowns. In reality, what comes out of reactors is far from the dangerous, radioactive sludge seen in movies or ...

Do Arabian countries have nuclear weapons? Have they started developing nuclear arsenals? Are these nations also following in Iran’s footsteps by secretly developing nuclear weapons? If Iran ...

The story of Britain’s postwar atomic weapons programme, its devastating legacy for the thousands of service personnel who took part and the impact on their families and indigenous communities.

In Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story (BBC Two), veterans recalled the moment of the blast. “The flash was so bright, I could see through my hands.” “It was as if I was being ...

Iran has increased its nearly weapons-grade uranium, a United Nations watchdog found, defying international demands to rein in its nuclear program. Iran now has enough uranium at 60% purity ...

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If the Kremlin was hoping to instill fear among its Western foes by lowering the bar for its use of nuclear weapons, then it may have been disappointed Wednesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Under the doctrine, Russia could theoretically consider any major attack on its territory, even with conventional weapons, by non-nuclear-armed Ukraine sufficient to trigger a nuclear response ...