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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

tactical nuclear weapons for use against troops on the battlefield are less powerful and can have a yield as small as about 1 kiloton. The U.S. bomb dropped on Hiroshima during World War II was 15 ...

BRUMFIEL: So during the Cold War, both the U.S. and Russia had, like, a load of these weapons in their stockpiles. And the U.S. got rid of its tactical nukes and actually replaced them with ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached ... the risk is growing that nuclear weapons will spread more widely and ...

indicates that tactical nuclear weapons have already been delivered to the war-torn country. There is no evidence to suggest that the Ukrainians have been sent nuclear weapons by the West.

Russian nuclear weapons "three times more powerful" than those used on Japan during World War II have already been ... Putin said his country would deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus ...

William Westmoreland, at the time the top U.S. general in Vietnam, was known for his perpetual positive outlook regarding the direction of the war ... low-yield tactical nuclear weapons be ...