nuclear weapons

Residents hold US and North Korean flags while they wait for motorcade of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un en route to the Metropole Hotel for the second US- North Korea summit in Hanoi, Vietnam February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kham/File Photo
World+Biz

North Korea accuses US of stoking tension with 'nuclear supremacy'

The comments come as nuclear-armed North Korea has raised alarm in the region with regular launches of missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that can strike the continental United...

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen addressing a High-Level Plenary Meeting of the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly on 26 September in New York. Photo: Courtesy
Bangladesh

There are no right hands to handle these wrong weapons: Momen calls for eliminating nuclear weapons at UN

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
Europe

Russia remains committed to treaty banning nuclear weapons test explosions: MFA

FILE PHOTO: A Russian all-terrain armoured vehicle is parked outside the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant during the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) expert mission in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, September 1, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko//File Photo
Europe

Ukraine says Russia considering nuclear plant attack, Moscow denies it

Is Putin genuinely intent on attacking Ukraine? Photo: Reuters
Politics

Putin says Russia positions nuclear bombs in Belarus as warning to West

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Politics

Putin says tactical nuclear weapons to be deployed in Belarus in July

A member of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service keeps watch at the Senkivka checkpoint near the border with Belarus and Russia in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine February 16, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
Europe

Russia to place nuclear weapons near Belarus' borders with Nato

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends the 7th enlarged plenary meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in Pyongyang, North Korea, March 1, 2023 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). KCNA via REUTERS
World+Biz

North Korea's Kim orders more production of weapons-grade nuclear materials

FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow, Russia February 21, 2023. Sputnik/Dmitry Astakhov/Kremlin via REUTERS
World+Biz

Nato criticises Putin for 'dangerous and irresponsible' nuclear rhetoric

Smoke rises over the remains of a building destroyed by a military strike, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Lysychansk, Luhansk region, Ukraine June 17, 2022. File Photo: Reuters
Europe

Kyiv calls for UN Security Council session over Putin's nuclear plans

Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, speaks during a news briefing, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Murad Sezer
Europe

Ukraine slams Putin plan to station Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus

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
Europe

What are tactical nuclear weapons and what is Russia's policy?

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USA

Biden says Putin's decision doesn't show he's thinking of using nuclear weapons