The nuclear shadow has precluded large-scale war between nuclear states. A fear of mutual destruction helped keep the Cold ...

The United States has officially started to produce a new low-yield nuclear warhead following President Donald Trump’s order last year to equip the Pentagon with tactical weapons that could be ...

The United States’ failure to field a credible, theater nuclear-deterrence capability is destabilizing and puts the United States at a disadvantage with its adversaries in Beijing, Moscow, and ...

tactical nuclear weapons, short range low yield nuclear weapons. Brookes: Now, some people may see it seemingly ridiculous to say low yield because a nuclear weapon is obviously much more powerful ...

Nuclear weapons are still here—and they’re still an existential ... The smallest weapon has an explosive yield of only 2 percent of that. Such “low-yield” weapons are specifically designed to be more ...

including those tactical low-yield nuclear weapons. China too has embarked on the world’s largest nuclear force expansion in decades under President Xi Jinping: from 300 warheads in 2019 to ...

Tobias Ellwood, who also served as Chair of the Defence Select Committee, predicted Russia may use a "low-yield" tactical nuclear weapon that could "take out a garrison". He said the UK must "wake ...

But military and nuclear weapons experts have said that if he ... explosive force of 1,000 tons of TNT), but Russia also has low-yield nukes that fall below one kiloton. That said, these weapons ...

believe that employment of low-yield nuclear weapons will give them an advantage over the United States and its allies and partners.". Ukraine’s intelligence services sent fake letters to 42 ...

WASHINGTON - The threat of Russia potentially using tactical or low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine cannot be taken lightly, but the CIA has not seen a lot of practical evidence reinforcing that ...