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Russian Nuclear Weapons Developments. Russia has long placed a high priority on its nuclear arsenal, especially since the end of the Cold War, when its conventional forces began to diminish in ...

Russia has around 4,380 operational nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists, but only 1,710 are “deployed” – or ready for use – supported by various strategic ...

Russia has again hinted that it is making changes to its official policy on the use of nuclear weapons, amid Ukraine's continuing incursion into its Kursk border region.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is on a visit to North Korea, said Moscow respects and understands why Pyongyang is developing its nuclear program.

Russian drills to deploy tactical nuclear weapons for combat involved the special delivery of dummy nuclear warheads to forward storage points and an airfield where they were loaded on to bombers ...

Russia is expanding its nuclear doctrine while also forming a close alliance with North Korea. The Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research’s activities of developing new advanced weapons ...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow respects North Korea's stance on pursuing nuclear development.

None of this means that Russia isn’t still a capable nuclear power. Indeed, the country has around 1,710 active deployed nuclear warheads, according to a November 2024 Congressional Research ...

I don’t think we should be very worried. Putin is fully aware that if he actually started a nuclear war, he would end up with Russia being a burning pile of rubble. There are only 200 cities in Russia ...

Separately, Russia said its forces had defused unexploded U.S.-supplied munitions fired by Ukraine that were shot down just 5 km (3 miles) from the Kursk nuclear plant.