Nuclear threat

Nuclear threat

Russian President Vladimir Putin. File Photo: Sputnik/Alexander Kazakov/Pool via REUTERS

Putin draws a nuclear red line for the West

But some in the West are asking: does he actually mean it?

Chairman of the Committee on Defence of Russia's State Duma Andrei Kartapolov attends the International Maritime Defence Show "FLEET-24" in Kronstadt near Saint Petersburg, Russia June 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo

Russian lawmaker warns Moscow may change timing for use of nuclear weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior editors from international news agencies at Lakhta Centre business tower in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 5, 2024. Photo: Sputnik/Valentina Pevtsova/Pool via REUTERS

Putin says Russia could deploy missiles in striking distance of the West

Nowhere to hide from a nuclear war

Nowhere to hide from a nuclear war

Russia's President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech at the Future Technologies Forum in Moscow, Russia, 14 February 2024. Photo: Reuters

Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war

A still image from video, released by the Russian Defence Ministry, shows what it said to be Russia's Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launched during exercises held by the country's strategic nuclear forces at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, in this image taken from handout footage released October 26, 2022. The captioning data read": "Missile launcher Yars". Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via REUTERS

Medical journals warn of 'growing' nuclear weapon threat

FILE PHOTO: A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives in Red Square during a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 78th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2023. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS

The global nuclear arsenal grew last year, SIPRI says

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attend a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia 6 April, 2023. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

Belarus official: West left us no choice but to deploy nuclear arms

Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov talks during an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine November 10, 2022. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

Ukraine defence chief plays down Russian nuclear strike threat

U.S. President Joe Biden discusses the 2022 U.S. midterm election results during a news conference in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 9, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Biden to discuss North Korea nuclear threat with Japan, South Korea leaders

People walk across Red Square near St Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower in central Moscow, Russia September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Kremlin says it will keep making 'vigorous' case on alleged Ukraine dirty bomb threat

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin delivers short remarks during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance's headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium October 13, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

We will not be intimidated by Russia's nuclear threats, NATO tells Moscow

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg gives a news conference ahead of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium October 11, 2022. REUTERS/Yves Herman

NATO chief: circumstances for NATO to use nuclear weapons 'extremely remote'