The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, accused Ukraine of calling for nuclear weapons, state media KCNA reported on Saturday, basing her assertion on an online petition in that country that has drawn under 1,000 signatures so far.

General Valery Gerasimov, the Russian Chief of the General Staff (CGS), took personal command of the military operation on January 11, 2023

Russia and the U.S. have clashed in the United Nations over Moscow’s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

“We will stop at nothing to protect our countries, our state and their peoples”, says Belarus’s president

The president of Belarus says Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed in his country along with part of Russia’s tactical nuclear arsenal

President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Russia, which has already decided to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, could if necessary put intercontinental nuclear missiles there too.

Russian strategic nuclear weapons might be deployed to Belarus along with part of Russia's tactical nuclear arsenal, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced last week that his country intended to deploy tactical, comparatively short-range and small-yield nuclear weapons in Belarus. The strategic nuclear weapons such…

BEIJING/WASHINGTON -- The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping is facing calls in China to rethink its "no first use" policy for nuclear weapons, a pledge not to use nuclear weapons unless attacked with such arms.

Western battle tanks begin to arrive as Russian forces remain unable to break through Ukrainian defences.

A top Russian diplomat says Russia will continue to give the U.S. advance notice about its missile tests despite suspending the last remaining nuclear arms treaty between the two countries

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday that Moscow has halted all information exchanges with Washington