Russia's nuclear arsenal, the world's largest: Key factsPresident Vladimir Putin has warned the West about Russia's potential use of nuclear weapons if attacked with conventional missiles. Russia...
26 Sep, 2024, 02.56 PM IST
British PM's 1st day at 10 Downing St. will stretch from nuclear weapons briefing to Larry the catOn his first day in office, Starmer will get briefings from senior civil servants about key issues facing the government, receive congratul...
06 Jul, 2024, 12.34 PM IST
Russia's nuclear arsenal: How big is it, and who controls it?Vladimir Putin's warning about Russia's nuclear readiness has sparked global concern. With the world's largest nuclear warhead stockpile at...
13 Mar, 2024, 01.21 PM IST
Putin seen in China with the Nuclear Briefcase; here's all about the Russian President's enigmatic companionThe significance of these briefcases and their potential role in global security remains a subject of interest and concern.
19 Oct, 2023, 01.48 PM IST
Where are Russia's top generals? Rumours swirl after mercenary mutinySenior generals in Russia, including Armed forces chief of staff General Valery Gerasimov and General Sergei Surovikin, have disappeared fr...
29 Jun, 2023, 02.18 PM IST
Russia's nuclear arsenal: How big and who controls it?President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered a nuclear warning to the West over Ukraine, suspending a landmark nuclear arms control treaty...
22 Feb, 2023, 06.07 PM IST
Who is Russia's new war commander Gerasimov and why was he appointed?Many of the nationalist war bloggers who have licence from the Kremlin to criticise the conduct of the war have blamed Gerasimov for the fa...
12 Jan, 2023, 08.21 PM IST
Don't expect US President Vladimir Putin to fall anytime soon, says Western officialPutin, the longest-serving paramount Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, has dominated Russia for nearly 23 years since Boris Yeltsin gave h...
02 Nov, 2022, 08.05 PM IST
This is not a bluff: Russian President Vladimir Putin escalates Ukraine war, issues nuclear threat to WestIn the biggest escalation of the Ukraine war since Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion, Putin explicitly raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict, ap...
21 Sep, 2022, 06.25 PM IST
How safe is the United States president's 'nuclear football'? Pentagon watchdog to find outIn a brief notice, the Inspector General's office said it would evaluate the extent to which Pentagon officials could detect and respond if...
21 Jul, 2021, 02.26 PM IST
US elections: Trump defies coronavirus, polls, but Biden keeps gainingStill being treated with a powerful cocktail of drugs for the coronavirus after three nights in hospital, he was scrambling to get his reel...
07 Oct, 2020, 09.14 AM IST
President Pranab Mukherjee: The people’s RashtrapatiAs additional secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee, Thomas Mathew remembers the politician, the statesman, and the boy who travelled fro...
04 Sep, 2020, 11.53 PM IST
'Football' and 'Biscuit' in Trump's security armourAccording to reports, secret service agents came to India a month ago, as is the routine. The American agents laid their own communication ...
23 Feb, 2020, 02.46 PM IST
Donald Trump and the nuclear football: What could possibly go wrong?A Q&A with nonproliferation expert and former missileer Bruce G. Blair on the dangers of a "nuclear monarch."
17 Sep, 2017, 12.09 PM IST
The briefcase shrunk to a smart phone; papers went digital and the backpack grew behind both gendersOne final reason for the fall of briefcases: As long as they were a marker of First Class status they were secure, but when everyone had th...
25 Feb, 2017, 01.37 AM IST
Narendra Modi has his finger now on India's nuclear buttonThe BJP manifesto caused some disquiet after it proclaimed India's nuclear doctrine would be "revised & updated to make it relevant to chal...
27 May, 2014, 11.40 AM IST
- 'US threatened to bomb Pak to Stone Age'
The US had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" in ’01 unless it cooperated in the US-led war on terror.
23 Sep, 2006, 03.37 AM IST