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India has 190 nuclear warheads with potential to produce up to 225: Report

India is estimated to have assembled around 190 nuclear warheads, including more than 160 for operational launchers and additional warheads for newer systems under production, according to the Federation of American Scientists. A separate Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists assessment highlights India’s production of highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium…

The Economic Times

China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos

China is constructing a massive military complex in its desert regions. Satellite images reveal a sprawling network of launch pads and bunkers. This infrastructure is designed to safeguard China's nuclear missiles. The development signals a significant upgrade in Beijing's nuclear deterrent capabilities. It underscores intensifying nuclear competition with the United…

The Economic Times

Countries deploying growing number of nuclear weapons, international monitors warn

Nearly all of the nine nuclear-armed states have started increasing their arsenals or have announced plans to do so, according to authors of the annual Nuclear Weapons Ban Monitor report.

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Mushroom clouds over Vegas? What Trump’s nuclear weapons tests could mean for America and the world

Trump’s command risks a global arms race while the Doomsday clock ticks closer than ever to midnight, experts say

The Independent UK

Nuclear triad and ‘robot wolves’: parade shows off array of Chinese weapons

On display in Beijing were nuclear weapons launched by air, sea and land, laser weapons and four-legged drones

The Guardian - UK

Campaigners call for Keir Starmer to say if US nuclear weapons are back in UK

CND and experts cite US air force transport flight thought to be carrying tactical bombs that landed at RAF base

The Guardian - UK

UK Government ignoring international law on nuclear weapons, experts warn

THE UK Government and other nuclear-armed states are flouting the international laws they have subscribed to, leading experts have said ...

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Trouble at US space force as multibillion-dollar program cancelled

Development of classified military communications satellite terminated over cost, scheduling and difficulty with payload

The Guardian - US

Analysis-China's intensifying nuclear-armed submarine patrols add complexity for U.S., allies

China is for the first time keeping at least one nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine constantly at sea, according to a Pentagon report - adding pressure on the United States and its allies as they try to counter Beijing's growing military.

Reuters

‘Damaged nuclear bomb’ at Dutch base was dummy weapon, Pentagon says

US defence department releases statement saying object was used in training after photo emerged of military inspection

The Guardian - US

Putin’s timeline for storing tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus is hard to believe

Although Alexander Lukashenko has agreed to host nuclear bases little construction work seems to have started

The Guardian - UK

New START: last US-Russia arms control treaty in jeopardy

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Moscow is suspending its participation in the last remaining U.S.-Russia arms control treaty will have an immediate impact on U.S. visibility into Russian nuclear activities

The Independent UK

Russia's nuclear arsenal is huge, but will Putin use it?

Experts in Russian doctrine worry that as the war in Ukraine gets more desperate, Russia might be tempted to detonate a nuclear weapon.

WEKU

Analysis-What is Russia's policy on tactical nuclear weapons?

The United States has said the world faces the gravest nuclear danger since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis because of remarks by Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the Ukraine conflict, but Moscow says its position has been misinterpreted.

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The Independent UK

Biden's 'Armageddon' talk edges beyond bounds of US intel

The White House says President Joe Biden’s warnings that the world is at risk of nuclear "Armageddon” were meant to convey that no one should underestimate the extraordinary danger if Russia deploys tactical nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine

The Guardian - US

Poland suggests hosting US nuclear weapons amid growing fears of Putin’s threats

Request is widely seen as symbolic, as moving nuclear warheads closer to Russia would make them less militarily useful

Al Jazeera

Global stockpile of nuclear weapons expected to rise: SIPRI

Swedish arms watchdog says nuclear arsenals set to grow in coming years, reversing a decline seen since the Cold War.

The Guardian - UK

UK military vaults upgraded to store new US nuclear weapons

A US 2023 budget request shows a UK is one of several European countries where investment is under way at ‘special weapons’ storage sites

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Los Angeles Times

Russia's nuclear threat explained

Russian President Vladimir Putin conjured the specter of nuclear war during the last week's fierce fighting in Ukraine, instructing Russia's military to place nuclear forces on "high combat alert," a "special regime of combat duty."

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