Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to conduct drills involving the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons, citing pe...

Concerns that Russia will target roads, railways or staging grounds for the materiel as it is shipped to the front lines in eastern and sou...

The White House has warned of "catastrophic consequences for Russia" if Vladimir Putin goes nuclear. But whether that will stay Putin's han...

Analysts and nuclear experts say the accumulating evidence suggests that Putin’s declaration of “combat readiness” was not an order to prep...

Today, both Russia and the United States have nuclear arms that are much less destructive - their power just fractions of the Hiroshima bom...

But despite the changing nature of the times, nuclear weapons continue to play a central role in Russian military strategy.