The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

The Ukraine war has cast a shadow over a 1994 denuclearization agreement between Ukraine and Russia brokered by the U.S.

Russia's announcement that it will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus shows that a Russia-China joint statement days earlier amounted to "empty promises", NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

Last year US President Joe Biden called Pakistan "one of the most dangerous countries in the world", presumably because of its potentially lethal cocktail of nuclear weapons and unstable politics. But somehow it staggers on endlessly, never resolving its permanent political crisis but never quite exploding either.

US defence department releases statement saying object was used in training after photo emerged of military inspection

Ambassador to Belarus says a storge facility will be completed by July

US government ‘keenly, strongly, closely’ tracking Evan Gershkovich’s detention; IAEA chief Rafael Grossi expected to visit on Wednesday

Russian envoy to Belarus says weapons will be moved to ally’s territory despite ‘noise in Europe and the United States’.

Russia will move its tactical nuclear weapons close to the western borders of Belarus, the Russian envoy to Minsk said on Sunday, placing them at NATO's threshold in a move likely to further escalate Moscow's standoff with the West.

Russia's ambassador to Belarus says that Moscow will deploy tactical nuclear weapons close to Belarus’ border with NATO neighbors

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, accused Ukraine of calling for nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported on Saturday, basing her assertion on an online petition in that country that has drawn under 1,000 signatures so far.

General Valery Gerasimov, the Russian Chief of the General Staff (CGS), took personal command of the military operation on January 11, 2023