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President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia has struck a deal with neighbouring Belarus to station tactical nuclear weapons on its territory but will not violate non-proliferation agreements. The following are details of Russia's nuclear arsenal, how big it is and who commands it.

The Cold War relic has a strange history and so-so effectiveness — but it may not be the point.

The Kremlin expressed alarm on Wednesday that the "Doomsday Clock" had edged closer to midnight than ever, even though the scientists who moved the symbolic dial cited Moscow's own "thinly veiled threats" to use nuclear weapons.

With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the specter of nuclear weapon use, Earth crept its closest to Armageddon, a science-oriented advocacy group said, moving its famous “Doomsday Clock” up to just 90 seconds before midnight. “We are really closer to that doomsday,” former Mongolian president Elbegdorj Tsakhia said Tuesday at…

The clock was created in 1947 to warn humanity of the dangers of nuclear weapons.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled the Doomsday Clock in 1947 as a means to represent the imminent threat of man-made global catastrophe, which is currently set at 90 seconds to midnight

“Annihilation” is less than two minutes away.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists says the world is closer to Armageddon than it has ever been

The Clock signals how close the world is to ending, taking into account nuclear weapons and climate change