Emerging Risks

Vladimir Putin is “potentially more dangerous” to the West than an enraged, unstable Stalin in his final months of life or a nuclear-brandishing Khrushchev during the Cuban crisis, according to a leading Russian commentator. Respected political analyst Andrey Piontkovsky gives a deeply alarming view of a lurch towards a new world war.

A series of Chinese drills near Taiwan were designed to send a clear message to the island and China will take further steps if Taiwan independence forces persist in doing as they please, Beijing said...

RUSSIA issued a chilling warning to Donald Trump shortly after the...

On January 16, the CDC will stage a grand rounds titled "Public Health Response to a Nuclear Detonation," the timing of which has some concerned.

Are the winds of war blowing from Russia?

"Everything is fine, just perfect. I congratulate the aircraft builders and I think we will deliver good news to the defense ministry," Putin said of the new TU-160M2.

According to the chief of the General Staff of Russia, Valery Gerasimov, in the last five years Russia has profoundly increased its military presence in key regions of the world, in some areas “reaching the level of the Soviet Union” (Vpk.name, November 9). Speaking on November 7, Russia’s top-ranking military official devoted significant attention to Crimea, which Moscow had forcibly …

General Sir Richard Barrons, former head of Joint Forces Command, said the UK has not carried out a full assessment of military needs since the end of the Cold War.

The aftermath in Haifa of a Hezbollah Katyusha rocket attack during the Second Lebanon War. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Newly-built Iranian …

And millions would have died.

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NORTH Korea could have sourced key components for a deadly missile from Russia or Ukraine, a top US defence expert has alleged.

Can Beijing and Washington escape the Thucydides Trap?

While the consequences of the "bomb" part of a nuclear warhead are well-known - intense fireball, heat, infrastructure damage - generations born after the Cold War may not understand the devastating effects radiation has on human health for those not killed in the initial blast. According to the Mayo Clinic, radiation sickness is damage to your body caused by a large dose of radiation over a short period of time. (It's important to note that routine exposures to very small amounts of radiation, such as in an X-ray or CT scan, doesn't cause radiation sickness.) Some symptoms happen immediate...

THIS nuclear war map shows the areas to avoid if America ever becomes involved in World War Three with Russia or North Korea.

Can Beijing and Washington escape the Thucydides Trap?

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Republican congressman warns of potenial "nuclear war" with Russia.

Both NATO and Russia have undergone massive military escalations in recent months, with each side accusing the other of provocation.

In recent days, Russia has resumed deadly attacks in its de facto war with Ukraine. Perhaps this is an early test of President Trump by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Perhaps Mr. Putin wagers that

"War is the continuation of politics by other means,” observed the Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz in his classic treatise On War. Although the aphorism has become axiomatic almost to

America must check the assertive, rising powers of Russia and China before it’s too late. Accepting spheres of influence is a recipe for disaster.

In an opinion piece for Time, Mikhail Gorbachev expressed concern about increasing militarization and called for renewed political dialogue between the United States and Russia.

General Stanley McChrystal perhaps shocked many when he spoke out on the chance of a war in Europe — aside from the continuing conflict in…

US political leaders have falsely accused Moscow of threatening NATO member states while the alliance aggressively builds up military forces on Russia’s border, Nobel Peace Prize winner and global peace activist Helen Caldicott told Sputnik.

Poland welcomes thousands of American troops, but Donald Trump's election puts Nato mission in doubt

War-themed rhetoric has helped the Russian government control crisis-related discontent, but it could backfire.

A senior Polish defense official announced he is considering a third squadron of missiles along the Baltic Sea.

“Get ready for war with Russia” if Hillary Clinton is elected president, said progressive Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein.