However, it seems unlikely Putin would pre-emptively use tactical nuclear weapons in an attempt to “win” the war in Ukraine. Such use is contradictory to nearly every nuclear doctrine around ...

Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken, divide and destroy Russia. Tactical nuclear weapons, sometimes called ...

"This project is motivated by the need to highlight the potentially catastrophic consequences of current US and Russian nuclear war plans ... US already has tactical nuclear weapons, such as ...

The reality is likely to be far from that. “US war games predict that a conflict involving use of tactical nuclear weapons will quickly spiral out of control,” the Union of Concerned ...

Tactical nuclear weapons are smaller, but powerful, and can be used on the battlefield. Putin has been threatening the possibility of nuclear war for the past year, especially when his military ...

For instance, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union developed devices small enough to fit into a suitcase-sized container. Why were tactical nuclear weapons developed, and have they ever been ...

also referred to as tactical nuclear weapons, amid rising tension following comments by senior Western officials about the possibility of deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine. The announcement ...

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has 2,000 small nuclear weapons, but their utility on the battlefield may not be worth the longer-term costs. By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad ...

President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces to rehearse deploying tactical nuclear weapons, as part of military ... Putin conceded that the war is “going to take a while” and warned ...

MOSCOW − Vladimir Putin's Russia said Monday it would practice deploying tactical ... for such weapons due to a lack of transparency. No power has used nuclear weapons in war since the United ...

Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons ... Moscow’s force of these nonstrategic nuclear weapons has already shown its utility in Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russia said on Tuesday it started a second stage of drills to practice deployment of tactical nuclear weapons alongside Belarusian ... conflict since World War Two will not escalate into a nuclear ...