Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Putin has repeatedly made veiled threats to use tactical nuclear weapons against the West.

Western analysts say the latest comments typify a pattern that has taken hold since Putin’s February 2022 full-scale invasion ...

On Monday, Russia announced its Southern Military District would hold snap tactical nuclear weapons drills involving its ground, navy, and air forces that will help “iron out” how exactly it ...

Moscow's defense doctrine envisages a nuclear response to an atomic strike or even an attack with conventional weapons that ...

and peaceful nuclear programs are often the first step toward acquiring nuclear weapons. Although Saudi Arabia does not yet have substantial nuclear infrastructure of its own, it is constructing a ...

Here, Live Science takes a look at the most powerful nuclear weapons ever detonated — specifically explosions that exceeded 10 megatons. In comparison, estimates for the Hiroshima bomb are ...

Claiming a "new round of escalation" from NATO amid the war in Ukraine, Russia plans drills simulating the use of battlefield ...

In the years after World War Two, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb. Sweden hasn't fought a war since 1814. But for more than 20 years after ...

France's nuclear weapons should be part of the European defence debate, French President Emmanuel Macron told a group of ...

In a speech, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko discussed the nuclear arsenal Russia recently deployed to Belarus.

Russia says the United States and its European allies are pushing the world to the brink of confrontation between nuclear powers by supporting Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars of weapons ...

From now on, any state with genuine fears for its own security is bound to consider building nuclear weapons. Over nearly eight decades after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, careful ...