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FT: Leaked Russian military documents show lower threshold for use of nuclear weapons than Putin claims
However, the nuclear threshold may be higher regarding Ukraine, according to William Alberque, the director of strategy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
CNN: Satellite safety at risk as Russia develops nuclear space weapon
Russia is developing a nuclear space weapon that could destroy satellites and disrupt global communications, CNN reported, citing sources familiar with US intelligence.
Russia to launch nukes into space, US intel warns
Russia is preparing to put nuclear weapons into orbit, according to US intelligence sources, prompting a call for President Biden to declassify the information and coordinate a response with Congress and allies.
What’s at stake if Ukraine loses?
Global security may spiral if Ukraine falls, with dictators embracing nukes while Americans question wasted aid and credibility.
ISW: Russia keeps stoking nuclear fears to deter Western aid to Ukraine
Russian government officials intensify nuclear rhetoric, claiming nuclear superiority and highlighting strategic weapons like hypersonic missiles. Russia's nuclear threats aim at obstructing Western military aid to Ukraine.
Russia simulates massive nuclear strikes in drills, exits test ban treaty
Russia demonstrated its nuclear capabilities by launching missiles from various platforms and announced its withdrawal from the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Kremlin’s ‘Mobilization Party’ believes limited nuclear strike would save its power at home and boost Russia’s abroad, Piontkovsky says
A newly coalescing “Mobilization Party” in the Kremlin is convinced that it can only save its own position…
Piontkovsky: To save his regime, Putin preparing to use nuclear weapons convinced West will blink first
“Even the toughest authoritarian regime cannot operate on force alone,” Andrey Piontkovsky says, noting that the collapse of…
Putin, his position shaky, may begin new aggression with nuclear blackmail, Piontkovsky says
Russia is not in a position to engage in an arms race with the United States, Andrey Piontkovsky…
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war against the West, Skobov says
Putin is preparing to fight and win a limited nuclear war, convinced that “the effete West will refuse…
Russian Orthodox Church: Performance of song about nuking US in St. Isaac’s Cathedral ‘in bad taste’
Few stories from Russia in recent times (other than anything connected with Vladimir Putin) have sparked a larger…
Putin has three goals in playing nuclear card against West now, Kirillova says
Vladimir Putin’s new round of sabre rattling against the United States is not simply an extension of what…
Moscow commentator: ‘Era of Russian-American nuclear parity rapidly coming to an end’ and not in Russia’s favor
Despite all of Vladimir Putin’s talk about super weapons that no opponent can stop, the aging of Soviet-era…
‘Undoubtedly Russia has put nuclear weapons in occupied Crimea,’ Felgenhauer says
Pavel Felgenhauer, an independent Russian military analyst, says that even though Moscow will not confirm or deny the…
Trump may negotiate with Putin for the same reasons he’s talking with Kim Jong-Un, Novoye Voennoye Obozreniye suggests
The editors of Novoye voyennoye obozreniye, the military affairs supplement to Nezavisimaya gazeta, suggest that the trajectory of…
Moscow’s development of poisons like one used against Skripal has long history and dark shadow
Felix Kubin, a Russian who defected to the US in 2013, says that he was approached before that…
Putin may not get a new Yalta but face a new Star Wars program, Pastukhov says
Vladimir Putin’s address yesterday was primarily directed at his domestic audience which wouldn’t have believed him if he…
“Moscow’s appropriation of Ukrainian history not limited to Queen Anna Yaroslavna” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
The nuclear fallout of Trump’s possible détente with Putin
“We can talk about the economy, we can talk about social security—the biggest problem this world has is…
With Tsar Bell that never rang and Tsar Cannon that never fired, what might one expect of Moscow’s bomb shelters?
The Russian government has proudly announced that it has bomb shelters for all Muscovites in the event of…