Russia's defense chief claimed on Tuesday that US Air Force planes carried out exercises imitating the use of nuclear weapons against the country. "This month, during the US Strategic Forces Global Thunder exercise, 10 strategic bombers practiced the option of using nuclear weapons against Russia ...

Warfare is a constant phenomenon of human history. To ensure its survival, man has always endeavored to acquire more potent weapon systems. The Final year of World War-2 witnessed the advent of nuclear age when US dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. This gave birth to a new debate in ...

WASHINGTON: China is expanding its nuclear arsenal much more quickly than anticipated, the United States has said, but Beijing on Thursday slammed the Pentagon report as overhyping the threat. The United States has declared China its principal security concern for the future, as Beijing works to ...

Online study aids used by US soldiers stationed at nuclear bases around Europe have been found to contain sensitive details. An investigation by Bellingcat uncovered the leak. Troops on US bases in Europe link housing nuclear weapons have been using publicly accessible online flashcard apps to ...

ISLAMABAD- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday a new head of the Mossad link intelligence agency, David Barnea, a key post in the Jewish state's defence from outside threats, especially arch-rival Iran. Barnea, 56, who served as a combat soldier in the elite Sayeret ...

TEHRAN – Iran's atomic energy organisation on Sunday said that the Natanz nuclear facility was hit by a terrorist act, hours after it said an "accident" had caused a power failure there. Iran stresses the need "for the international community and the International Atomic Energy Agency to ...

WASHINGTON - Some jokingly said the cryptic tweet, ";l;;gmlxzssaw," was a US nuclear launch code. Others, that the Pentagon had been hacked. And some even thought it was a signal to political conspiracists. Now the US Strategic Command, which runs the country’s powerful nuclear weapons force, ...

Iran's Supreme Leader said Monday his country "will not back down" on its right to pursue its nuclear program and could enrich uranium up to 60% purity for civilian use. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was addressing a meeting of the Assembly of Experts, a powerful 88-member clerical body, in the Iranian ...

On Friday, Pakistan said that it does not consider itself bound by any of the obligations enshrined in the Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons link. In a statement issued on Friday, Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri stressed that this treaty neither forms a part of, nor ...

UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons entered into force on Friday, with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres hailing it as “an important step towards a world free of nuclear weapons”. In a video message and statement, he said that the Treaty on the Prohibition of ...