Russia has significantly upgraded a nuclear weapons bunker in Kaliningrad, a sensitive exclave of Russian territory sandwiched between Poland and the Baltic states, according to space imagery. This is evidenced by satellite images published by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow was dominated by anti-American rhetoric when he showed a video demonstration of the new "invulnerable" nuclear weapon with unlimited range. The video showed a simulated missile attack on Florida, writes the Miami Herald, trying to explain ...
He stressed that Russia does not possess tactical nuclear weapons and does not practice their use. Speaking at an international conference on disarmament in Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the preservation of American non-strategic nuclear weapons in Europe and the conduct by the United ...
American military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, in his new work “The Doomsday Machine: Confession of a Nuclear Strategist,” spoke about the possible causes of World War III and its consequences. RIA Novosti writes about this, with reference to a book review published in the San Francisco Chronicle. A full-scale conflict could be provoked...
In early 2017, the US government declassified 750 videos of nuclear weapons testing that took place from 1945 to 1962. In March, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, part of the University of California, posted the first 64 videos on its YouTube channel. On December 14, the researchers posted 62 more videos. Tapes with recordings of nuclear tests, many ...
The US Air Force is preparing to reactivate B-52 strategic bombers, US Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein said. As Goldfein told the Air Force, an order is now being prepared to return to round-the-clock duty of heavy bombers, which are based at Barksdale AFB in the state ...
North Korea has produced a nuclear warhead that can be fitted to the country's missiles. This is evidenced by data from a secret US intelligence report, according to the Washington Post. This would mean that the DPRK is turning into a full-scale nuclear power much faster than many experts predicted ...
President Donald Trump, speaking alongside South Korean President Moon Jae-in, said Friday that U.S. patience with the North Korean regime has “ended,” CNN reported. “The era of strategic patience with the North Korean regime has failed,” Trump said in a statement. - And, to be honest,...
North Korea threatens South Korea and the United States with “super-powerful pre-emptive strikes.” North Korea has stated that it will be ready to take such a step if the United States begins military maneuvers. “If we launch our super-powerful and pre-emptive strike, we will destroy not only the bases of the American imperialists in...
On October 18, the Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey admitted that the conflict in Syria could become the beginning of a third world war, since the main nuclear powers - the United States and Russia - are on opposite sides of the barricades there. Since the mid-twentieth century, international relations experts have assumed that if...