Nuclear weapons

Iran backs down on nuclear site resolution after US pushback

Iran withdrew its resolution condemning attacks on nuclear sites after last-minute US pressure exposing deep divides at the UN watchdog as sanctions threats loom

Russia & Belarus practise launching Putin's nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus, says Lukashenko

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has said that Russia-Belarus 'Zapad' military drills involved practising the launch of Vladimir Putin's nuclear weapons deployed in his country.

Iran enters new nuclear pact with UN for site inspection 3 months after Israel-US strike

Iran has agreed with the UN to resume nuclear site inspections three months after US-Israeli strikes, in a bid to ease Western sanctions

Ahead of Alaska summit, Putin prepares to test nuclear missile that could breach US 'Golden Dome'

In a show of strength ahead of the Alaska summit with US President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin appears ready to test a nuclear missile that he has envisioned as Russia's answer to America's 'Golden Dome', the four-layer air defence system in the making.

India's first war to Operation Sindoor: 5 shifts transforming its military power

This is the story of how decades of challenges, wars, and innovation have shaped one of the world’s most capable defence forces — from building indigenous weapons to developing nuclear deterrence, from reforming strategy after every conflict to creating a modern, integrated force ready for the future

Iran signals complex talks ahead of first IAEA visit since July suspension

The IAEA visit is the first since President Masoud Pezeshkian halted collaboration on July 3 this year

‘From the soil of a friendly country’: India calls Munir’s ‘nuclear sabre rattling’ from US ‘regrettable’

After Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir threatened India and the world with nuclear strikes, India called the nuclear sabre-rattling 'regrettable', particularly as it came 'from the soil of a friendly country'.

From deterrence to danger: How Trump policy is fuelling global nuclear risks

With a slew of decisions over many years, US President Donald Trump has raised the risk of a nuclear catastrophe to the highest level in years, undoing decades of nuclear arms reduction and non-proliferation efforts.

'My god, what have we done': The 2 US pilots who dropped atomic bombs on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On August 6, 1945, a US Air Force B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima, killing thousands of people. Three days later, another atomic bomb detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Who were the pilots who flew the planes – Enola Gay and Bockscar – carrying the nuclear weapons? Did they ever regret the attacks that killed about two lakh in Japan?

80 years after Hiroshima: Nuclear threat still looms over global security

Eighty years after Hiroshima, nuclear weapons remain a grave and growing threat to global security