The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

Russia has suspended participation in a UN-brokered deal to export agricultural produce from Ukrainian ports following attacks on ships in Crimea, TASS quoted the defence ministry as saying on Saturday. Follow FRANCE 24's live blog for all the latest developments. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernized US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the "nuclear threshold" and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and…

US tells North Korea any use of nuclear weapons would spell end of its ruling regime

The UN's nuclear watchdog will this week carry out an "independent verification" of Russian allegations concerning the production of so-called dirty bombs at two sites in Ukraine, it said on Thursday. Russia has accused Ukraine of preparing to use such a weapon against Moscow's troops, but Kyiv suspects Russia might…

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime.”

About four million people across Ukraine are being affected by rolling power cuts due to Russian strikes on electricity infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his Friday evening address. Earlier on Friday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow had "completed" the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists in just…

The United States is to reportedly fast-track the sending of B61-12 air dropped gravity bombs to NATO allies with the delivery now set to take place in December rather than next spring

There is 'no point' politically or militarily, said Russian President

The Russian President has hit out at the UK's ex-Prime Minister