Doomsday Clock stays at 90 seconds to midnight - BBC
The Doomsday Clock - which shows how symbolically close the world is to nuclear Armageddon - is to remain at 90 seconds to midnight. Scientists have listed reasons for keeping its hands the ...
Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Weapons Strategy Focusing on …
Aug 20, 2024 · President Biden approved in March a highly classified nuclear strategic plan for the United States that, for the first time, reorients America’s deterrent strategy to focus on China’s rapid ...
Opinion | Nuclear War: The Rising Risk, and How We Stop It
Mar 7, 2024 · China’s aggressive nuclear buildup has complicated the strategic balance of the Cold War, raising questions in the United States about how to handle a three-way competition.
Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia …
Sep 25, 2024 · President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it...
Exclusive: US prepared ‘rigorously’ for potential Russian nuclear ...
Mar 9, 2024 · In late 2022, the US began “preparing rigorously” for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear weapon, in what would have been the first nuclear attack in war since the US dropped ...
US scrambled to urge Putin not to use nuclear weapons in …
Oct 8, 2024 · Months into Russia’s war in Ukraine, the United States had intelligence pointing to “highly sensitive, credible conversations inside the Kremlin” that Russian President Vladimir Putin was seriously considering using nuclear weapons to avoid major battlefield losses.
Risk of nuclear war rising amid global conflicts, Nobel peace …
Oct 12, 2024 · Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of...
Russia warns of direct clash with West over Ukraine | Reuters
MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest...
U.S. warns Russia of consequences if it uses nuclear weapons - NBC News
Sep 26, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin renewed his nuclear threats last week as he escalated his war in Ukraine by calling up reservists and moving to annex occupied areas. The United States has...
Nuclear annihilation just one miscalculation away, UN chief warns - BBC
The world is one misstep from devastating nuclear war and in peril not seen since the Cold War, the UN Secretary General has warned. "We have been extraordinarily lucky so far," Antonio...