Ambassador to Denmark official Vladimir Barbin warned Copenhagen that the delivery of F-16 fighter jets "would be seen as a nuclear threat."

Russia said shortly after the outbreak of all-out war in Ukraine that the risks of nuclear conflict were "considerable."

The Kremlin on Thursday warned of escalation in Ukraine if the West gives the pro-Western country more weapons capable of striking Russia.  "Potentially, this is extremely dangerous, it will mean bringing the conflict to a whole new level, which, of course, will not bode well from the point of view of global and pan-European security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

God forbid, if Russia uses a nuclear weapon, we may look back and wonder if we responded to Putin’s rhetoric with sufficient urgency at this moment.

In a gathering Cold War atmosphere, American officials are gaming out responses should Russia resort to battlefield nuclear weapons.

The latest threat by Margarita Simonyan comes as Russia's space agency has announced Moscow will soon have 50 new nuclear missiles.

Russian news programs discussing the war in Ukraine are ramping up talks of nuclear Armageddon.

The official warns that from Putin's vantage point, though, deep dissatisfaction with the situation in Ukraine and fear of the west turning the tide might actually provoke a nuclear display of some sort—one intended to shock the west and bring a halt to the war. The supply of western arms is also now a serious game changer, resupplying Ukraine while Russia is increasingly constrained. "Escalation is now a true danger," says the senior official.

Nina Khrushcheva said she fears Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually deploy tactical nuclear weapons to claim victory in Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has raised the spectre of a nuclear war in Europe. Here's what we know and what might happen next

The world’s nuclear arsenal had started to seem irrelevant – until Putin put his nation’s on high alert. What does it mean?

Vladimir Solovyov predicted that the use of tactical nukes is "inevitable" before listing targets including Germany, Poland and Slovakia.

Recently, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl told Congress that the odds Russia would use nuclear weapons are low: “I don’t think they’re likely to do so.” The Washington-…

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Chechen leader and Putin ally Ramzan Kadyrov said Saturday that Russia should consider using low-yield nuclear weapons in its war against Ukraine.

Russia's nuclear doctrine is called "escalate to deescalate" or, more appropriately, "escalate to win," which means threatening or using nukes early in a conventional conflict. Even if Putin is now bluffing — most analysts think he is — he is getting

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Dmitry Medvedev, who served a President of Russia from 2008 to 2012, listed the four scenarios in which Russia would launch their nuclear arsenal

Russia will likely continue to improve the speed, stealth, and precision of its tactical nuclear weapons in the 2020s.

With an estimated 100,000 Russian troops positioned near Ukraine’s border and President Biden promising to assist Ukraine against a Russian invasion, the risk of nuclear weapons use is once again on the rise. During the Cold War, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), long-range strategic bombers, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) were the primary threat to human […]

The question from Western strategists is just how far Russia will go to escalate a nuclear confrontation. Putin certainly has options.

Russia has passed the United States in the nuclear weapons category. Their new generation of tactical nuclear weapons is superior to ours, and they are expanding other capabilities. Which would be bad enough if our nuclear weapons actually worked well and were ready if we ever needed them. But we have some issues and no one wants to even work on them anymore, erroneously thinking that nuclear deterrence is an obsolete relict of the Cold War.

Russia has warned citizens that a nuclear war with the West could be imminent - sparked by clashes in the Middle East. Officials said on Friday that underground shelters had been built which could house 12 milion people - enough for the entire population of Moscow. Russia has clashed with the Western

The Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations is revisiting a Soviet-era civil defense plan and is upgrading its bomb ...

The possibility that nuclear weapons will be used in a regional or global conflict has increased over the past decade, according to a newly released report from the Pentagon.