Vladimir Putin's unprovoked war in Ukraine has fueled speculation he's prepared to break a decades-old taboo on using nuclear weapons. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

If Putin thought he couldn’t win that war with conventional arms alone (he’s having a hard enough time against just the Ukrainian army), he might very well escalate to nuclear war. That’s ...

Putting nuclear weapons in the path of a Soviet invasion was a deterrent strategy meant to warn Moscow that Western commanders, facing rapid defeat, might have to launch before being overrun.

Putin Raises Specter of Nuclear Weapons Following Battlefield Losses. ... Rather than enter the war, he’s opted for a muted, dual-track strategy of providing arms to Ukraine’s military, ...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov’s recent reaffirmation of Russia’s nuclear doctrine is a thinly veiled warning to the United ...

Vladimir Putin has put Russia’s nuclear arsenal on “special combat readiness” in response to “illegal sanctions” from the U.S. and Europe. But could Russia’s war in Ukraine really ...

Here is the only thing we know: As long as Putin believes that the use of nuclear weapons won’t win the war—as long as he believes that to do so would call down an unprecedented international ...

“I don’t think we should look at this as a threat by Putin to use nuclear weapons against the United States, against Europe, against NATO,” said Kimball. But, he added, “it’s a point in ...

Putin told Russian television on March 25 that he intends to station Russian tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, a country that borders both Ukraine and NATO.

After Biden authorized to Ukraine to strike targets in the Kursk Oblast with ATACMS, Putin has publicly lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons on Nov. 19.

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence is threatened, issuing another blunt warning to the West before an election in which he’s ...

On Wednesday, Putin said Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in case of an attack on Belarus, as it's part of the "Union State" with Russia — a special partnership between the ...