Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-- a move that he said was needed to establish parity with the United States.
The exercise comes after Russia's upper House of the Parliament, the Federal Council, approved the revocation of the ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty.
Ashok Tandon was media relations in-charge in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's PMO from 1998-2004. He made these revelations in his new book 'The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation'.
It's a Burevestnik nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile which has been tested by Russia. The missile was codenamed as Skyfall by NATO, however, the Russian President didn't elaborate much about the atomic bomb.
Making the statement during his state-of-the-nation address, Putin said that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States amid tensions with Washington over Ukraine war.
A possible new nuclear test by North Korea would be the seventh of its kind. Some experts say North Korea will likely use the test to build warheads to be mounted on tactical nuclear weapons aimed at hitting targets in South Korea.
North Korea in recent months has test-launched a spate of missiles in what experts call an attempt to modernize its weapons and pressure its rivals to accept the country as a nuclear state and relax their sanctions.
The North’s Foreign Ministry had already warned of stronger and more explicit action after the Biden administration last week imposed fresh sanctions over the North’s continued missile testing activity.
Addressing the flag hoisting ceremony held at the President House to celebrate Pakistan's 75th Independence Day, Alvi said over the past 74 years, "three wars were forced upon us", however, the nation kept moving on despite the challenges.
Pakistan's Railways Minister Shiekh Rashid on Saturday claimed that the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was against conducting the nuclear tests in 1998 in response to India's tests.
Nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War led to increased rainfall thousands of kilometres from the detonation sites, new research has found.
The 2017 nuclear test by North Korea shifted the ground by a few metres, and was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, according to scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
India does not need to conduct more nuclear trials as it achieved the desired results from the 1998 tests at Pokhran, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman R Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) has offered India an "Observer" status and access to International Monitoring System (IMS) data.
Parmanu- The Story of Pokhran is based on the nuclear bomb test explosions that Indian Army covertly conducted in Pokhran in 1998
More than 200 people were killed when a tunnel at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site had collapsed after the sixth atomic test in September, according to a Japanese media report.
Warning against imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that such steps would be “useless and inefficient”
BRICS countries today strongly condemned North Korea's nuclear test as the US said it will answer the threat with a "massive military response".
Gold prices surged by Rs 200 to trade at Rs 30,600 per ten gram - its highest level this year - at the bullion market today after North Korea conducted its most powerful nuclear test
The drill intended to simulate a strike on North Korea's Pyunggye-ri nuclear test site
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