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Putin says Russia will station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

Kiev and its Western allies fear tactical nuclear weapons could be used in the conflict after Russian leader warned Moscow was prepared to use all its vast arsenal to defend its interest.

IAEA head Grossi to meet Iran's Raisi during crucial nuclear talks

Rafael Grossi's visit to Tehran comes after IAEA reported Iran has enriched uranium particles up to 83.7% — just under 90% needed to produce an atomic bomb.

Mission Majnu: Why India could not thwart Pakistan's nuclear aspiration

The Netflix action flick has glaring factual inconsistencies despite its claim of being based on real life incidents. Here's what transpired between the two archrivals in the decades of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Court denies medical aid to Nagasaki atomic bomb survivors' children

A court in Japan rejected a demand by a group of children of the 1945 US atomic bombing, saying that it is up to the government to decide whether to expand financial support to include second-generation survivors.

IAEA: Iran's enriched uranium reserves 15 times limit of nuclear deal

The UN nuclear watchdog's Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi will meet with senior Iranian officials in Tehran to discuss the stockpile that the group says can easily be used for atomic weapons.

Has Russia betrayed the 1994 nuke deal guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty?

According to the Western-sponsored Budapest Memorandum, Kiev gave up its nuclear weapons in return for the Russian pledge of respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity.

Iran supreme leader rejects 'absurd' claims Tehran seeking nuclear weapons

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the importance of nuclear energy for his country, while again asserting that it had no interest in atomic bombs.

France alarmed by radiation, a colonial legacy still lingering in Algeria

A spring desert wind laced with radioactive dust has struck France, but it's nothing compared to what Algerians have faced as a result of France's testing of nuclear weapons in former colonies.

Hiroshima marks 75 years since US atomic bombing

On August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bombing by the United States hit the Japanese city of Hiroshima and killed 140,000 people.

Japan commemorates 72nd anniversary of Nagasaki's atomic bombing

Hundreds on Wednesday have attended a commemorative ceremony in Japan's Nagasaki to mark the 72nd anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings that killed tens of thousands of people.

Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors speak out 72 years on

Sunday marks 72 years since the US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

World Court rejects Marshall Islands' nuclear testing case

The Marshall Islands had argued that India, Pakistan and the UK was violating the the 1970 Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons by developing a new generation of "tactical" nuclear weapons.