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Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a nuclear power supporting another country's attack on Russia will be considered a participant in aggression

Says the country has thus far exercised restraint in utilising its nuclear capabilities in response to Western involvement in Ukraine

Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Ali Sabry deposited the instrument of accession on Tuesday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported

Given the absence of reliable data originating from within Pakistan, the Nuclear Notebook used a combination of open-source materials to arrive at their estimates and carry out the analysis

Russia and Belarus signed a deal on Thursday formalising the procedure for deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory

By Thomas E Doyle, II Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress – or lack thereof. After being postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the month-long conference is now meeting in New York and opened with a stark warning. The […]

Kyiv: Amid the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned the world to be prepared for the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, reported CNN. Zelenskyy, in an interview with CNN, said, “Not only me — all of the world, all of the countries have to be […]

On 6th August 1945, a US bomber dropped the uranium fission bomb, codenamed Little Boy, on Hiroshima.

The August 9, 1945, bombing came three days after the United States made the world's first atomic attack on Hiroshima, killing 140,000.

States are also prohibited from using or threatening to use nuclear weapons and other nuclear explosive devices.

The first-ever nuclear weapons ban treaty is groundbreaking, even though the nuclear powers haven’t signed