Tag: nuclear

The Australian counterinsurgency specialist, David Kilcullen, has written a book warning Nato that Russia and China have used civilian techniques…

Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, has called for the development of land-based intermediate-range missiles by 2021. He told the military…

The Norwegian insurgent credited with stopping the Nazi Germany from acquiring nuclear weapons has died at 99. Joachim Roenneberg headed…

Russia has threatened a renewed arms race after Donald Trump threatened to pull the US out of a 1980s nuclear…

Satellite pictures appear to show Russia has upgraded a nuclear weapons bunker in Kaliningrad as tensions with the west continue…

European powers have moved to protect the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement by vowing to take steps to protect their firms…

The Akademik Lomonosov (pictured), called Russia’s “floating Chernobyl” by environmentalists, is due to be wired into the electrical grid in…

Donald Trump is likely to axe the Iran nuclear deal, according to French President Emanuel Macron, adding that he is…

Engineers at Russia’s principal nuclear research plant have been detained for allegedly attempting to mine bitcoin on its supercomputer.  Several…

On September 26, 1983, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, then 44, was on overnight duty at Serpukhov-15, a bunker southwest of…

Kurchatov Rotunda. Source: Wikimedia In the endless forests of Russia’s Ural mountains lies the hidden city of Ozersk, locked behind…

Kaliningrad should be on everyone’s radar, especially while the world is gripped by the Brexit crisis. Source: Wikimedia   Moscow…