Russia, US discussed nuclear arms
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Experts warn that the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry.
Russia’s strategic nuclear forces carried out a readiness test supervised by the country’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin said. “Today, we are conducting a planned – I want to emphasize, planned – nuclear forces command and ...
U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder. As we mentioned in last month’s article on what is believed to have been a ‘Skymaster exercise’, the annual Exercise ...
Going further, the French could deploy fighter jets from the nuclear-capable part of the fleet to Germany or other European countries, as they did—unarmed—in Sweden and Poland last year. The most far-reaching option, mimicking the existing NATO scheme, would be to pre-position air-launched nuclear weapons in allied countries.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Energy Department and Air Force in August successfully carried out the first tests dropping unarmed B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs from an F-35A fighter, the laboratory in charge of ...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches, an exercise that came as his planned summit on Ukraine with U.S. President Donald Trump was put on ...
Lockheed Martin is responsible for developing the Mk21A reentry vehicle for the upcoming Sentinel ICBM. This week, the Lockheed Martin Corporation received a $453.9 million contract modification for the Mk21A nuclear weapons program. This modification ...
President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s appropriate to do so,” the president told reporters ...
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