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No plans to change US nuke strike rules: Pentagon chief
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday the Pentagon has no plans to pursue a "no-first-use" nuclear weapons policy. His...
US Air Force set to replace intercontinental nuke arsenal
Hidden underground in steel-and-concrete silos across rural America, more than 400 intercontinental ballistic missiles point to the skies, poised for...
North Korea carries out ‘biggest ever’ nuclear test: Seoul
North Korea has conducted a fifth nuclear test, its most powerful to date, South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye said Friday,...
North Korea leader hails missiles, calls for nuclear build-up
Kim Jong Un labelled North Korea’s latest missile tests “perfect”, state media said Tuesday (Sept 6), as he called for...
US Nuclear Weapons in Turkey at Risk of Seizure by Terrorists, Hostile Forces
The continued presence of dozens of U.S. nuclear weapons at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey raises serious risks of their...
US Air Force head ‘concerned’ about no-first-use nukes
The head of the US Air Force on Thursday said she would be "concerned" if President Barack Obama were to...
North Korea says missile tests simulated nuclear strike on South
North Korea said Wednesday its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on US targets in...
China Has 260 Nuclear Weapons, Fewer Than 4% of US
Global nuclear weapons in early 2016 saw a slight decrease from 2015, with China ranking fourth with 260 nuclear weapons,...
US, Russia cutting nuke arsenals, but modernizing: study
The world's biggest nuclear powers, the US and Russia, are slowly reducing their nuclear arsenals but are modernizing their capacities,...
Why Russia’s Reviving Its Nuke Trains
Russian "Barguzin" strategic missile trains may become an asymmetric response to NATO's complex European Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system deployed...
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