Russia Nuclear

• Russia doubles down on Ukraine ‘dirty bomb’ claims to UN, West warns of false flag

  Russia sent a letter on its claims to the United Nations late on Monday, and diplomats said Moscow planned to raise the issue with the Security Council the following day.

  World

  Oct 24, 2022
  
• Russian nuclear attack in Ukraine would cross ‘very important line,’ NATO chief warns

  Amid Russia's bombing campaign in Ukraine, United States President Joe Biden has said the world faces the biggest risk of nuclear Armageddon since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

  World

  Oct 13, 2022
  
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• Putin’s nuclear threats on Ukraine require proactive, not reactive response: experts

  Experts say rather than worrying about how to respond to a potential nuclear strike by Russia, the West needs to apply further pressure to prevent that outcome.

  World

  Oct 9, 2022
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• How will Russia’s chain of command work in the event of a nuclear weapon launch?

  President Vladimir Putin has once again promoted Russia's nuclear might, saying on Wednesday that a new ballistic missile system should make Moscow's enemies stop and think.

  World

  Apr 21, 2022
• Russia looking for thieves who hit Putin’s nuclear ‘Doomsday Plane’

  The aircraft is designed to serve as a mobile command centre during a nuclear exchange.

  Trending

  Dec 9, 2020
• Controversial Russian floating nuclear power plant heads out to Baltic Sea

  Russia's controversial floating nuclear power plant has headed out for its first sea voyage.

  World

  Apr 28, 2018
• Radioactive readings in Russia were 986 times the norm

  Russia's meteorological service confirmed "extremely high" concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 in several parts of the country in September.

  World

  Nov 20, 2017
• Nuclear accident in Russia or Kazakhstan left radioactive pollution over Europe, no health impacts expected

   A cloud of radioactive pollution over Europe in recent weeks indicates that an accident has happened in a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan in the last week of September, French nuclear safety institute IRSN said on Thursday.

  Science

  Nov 9, 2017