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The global stage for nuclear weapon discussions is heating up with prominent leaders like US President Donald Trump, China, and Russia engaging in talks about reducing arsenals and denuclearization. While these discussions unfold, a significant portion of Ukrainians believe that having their own nuclear weapons is a key security guarantee. This sentiment echoes amid global nuclear developments. Trump has openly discussed the US's nuclear advantage yet expresses a desire for a nuclear-free world. Meanwhile, Russia's potential for nuclear tests raises alarms, and NATO continues to ensure readiness through nuclear exercises like Steadfast Noon. As nations grapple with nuclear capabilities, the question of modernization and deterrence remains central to global security dynamics.

What talks are happening about reducing nuclear arsenals?

Recently, US President Donald Trump announced that there are ongoing discussions involving the US, China, and Russia focused on reducing their nuclear arsenals and moving towards denuclearization. These talks are part of broader efforts to address global nuclear capabilities and potential disarmament strategies.

How do Ukrainians feel about acquiring nuclear weapons?

A recent poll indicates that 31% of Ukrainians believe that creating their own nuclear weapons would provide the best guarantee for the nation's security. This reflects a significant portion of the population's viewpoint on enhancing their defense capabilities in the face of potential threats.

What actions has the US taken regarding its nuclear arsenal?

The US has tested an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, demonstrating its strategic capabilities. President Trump has also ordered the resumption of nuclear testing, emphasizing readiness while expressing interest in global denuclearization discussions with other major powers.

What is Russia's current stance on nuclear capabilities?

Russia is conducting nuclear tests and expanding its capabilities with new technologies, such as the Poseidon submarine. Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov has urged further nuclear tests, reflecting a strong focus on maintaining and enhancing nuclear readiness amid global tensions.

What are NATO's recent activities related to nuclear deterrence?

NATO has initiated its annual Steadfast Noon nuclear exercises to test and ensure readiness for nuclear deterrence. This involves strategic coordination among member nations to address potential threats and maintain collective defense capabilities in the face of evolving global security challenges.

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Russia masters hybrid warfare techniques in Black, Azov Seas, ex-Navy commander says Russia masters hybrid warfare techniques in Black, Azov Seas, ex-Navy commander says The capacity and combat potential of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation has increased tenfold in five years after the occupation of Crimea 2 070 39 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Occupied territories - Crimea and Donbas

US president intends to build up country US president intends to build up country's nuclear arsenal to have leverage over China, Russia, - media U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Monday that the United States intended to build up its arsenal of nuclear weapons to pressure Russia and China. 6 214 64 World

Fresh satellite imagery suggests military buildup in Russian Kaliningrad, - CNN. PHOTOS Fresh satellite imagery suggests military buildup in Russian Kaliningrad, - CNN. PHOTOS New satellite images shared exclusively with CNN show Russia appearing to upgrade four of its military installations in Kaliningrad, Russia's strategic outpost on NATO's doorstep. 20 043 23 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

NATO chief says Kremlin increasingly prepared to use nuclear weapons NATO chief says Kremlin increasingly prepared to use nuclear weapons NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg insists on decisive action of the Alliance members against Russia stressing that it is critical to show Moscow that its actions in Crimea, cyberattacks, or violations of international laws will not be tolerated. 25 057 90 Incidents

трамп US ready to defend itself with diplomatic, conventional, and nuclear possibilities, - Trump Any threat to the United States or its allies will cause a massive military response, Defense Secretary Mattis added. 35 842 128 World

армия учения кндр North Korea fired unidentified ballistic missile North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile from Pukchang area, according to the South Korean military's Joint Chiefs of Staff. 27 738 58 World

US willing to engage militarily against North Korea, - State Secretary Tillerson at special UN meeting U.S.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on nations Friday to fully enforce existing sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. 36 656 161 World

Russian General Staff claims US capable of carrying out covert nuclear missile strike against Russia Senior Officials of the Russian General Staff believe that capabilities of the U.S. Armed Forces allow intercepting Russian ballistic missiles, which capabilities will only grow in the future. 100 520 169 Incidents

UK to launch pre-emptive nuclear strike in 'most extreme circumstances,' Defense Secretary Fallon says British Armed Forces may use nuclear weapons as a first strike in the most extreme circumstances. 34 654 142 World

US ready to strike North Korean nuclear sites, - The Times The United States could “utterly destroy” the key North Korean targets using conventional weapons. 98 558 341 World

North Korea-US conflict could break out at any moment, - China Minister China Foreign Minister Wang Yi has warned that "conflict could break out at any moment" as tension over North Korea increases. 43 772 245 Previously in trend: War

Pyongyang vows to launch preemptive strike on US targets, - DW North Korea says it will decisively disrupt any U.S.' "political, economic or military provocation." 97 983 322 World

Nuclear powers boycott UN denuclearization talks The world's major nuclear powers - the United States, Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom - and more than 30 other countries have ignored the United Nations meeting on the renunciation of nuclear weapons. 21 062 106 World

Germany’s defense minister warns Trump against unreliability of nuclear deals with Russia Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, commenting on U.S. President Donald Trump's readiness to alleviate sanctions on Russia in exchange for cutting nuclear weapons, recalled that the Russian Federation had violated its promise to Kyiv to guarantee the preservation of Ukraine's borders in exchange for giving up nuclear arsenal. 26 649 52 World

трамп Trump offers Russia to cut nuclear arms in exchange for lifting sanctions U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump has said he is ready to lift certain sanctions against Russia if President Vladimir Putin agrees to cut nuclear weapons. 136 963 478 Previously in trend: Sanctions against Russia President Trump

Russia an existential threat to US, - Air Force Secretary James Russia is the No. 1 threat to the United States. 20 453 116 World

European Parliament sounds wake-up call on Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons MEPs are concerned about “nuclear threats arising from the Russian attitude, its statements indicating an increased readiness to use nuclear weapons, and consideration of the potential deployment of nuclear weapons to additional territories in Europe.” 34 259 109 World

U.S. conducts successful surveillance flight tests In collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, NNSA conducted successful surveillance flight tests using joint test assemblies (JTA) of the B61-7 and B61-11 earlier this month. 71 001 157 World

путин Putin suspends Russia-US plutonium disposition accord, names conditions for renewal Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending the 2010 agreement under which sides commit to destroy tonnes of weapons-grade material. Russian side named Washington not implementing it and current tensions in relations between the two countries as reasons behind the suspension. 197 849 657 Previously in trend: Sanctions against Russia

Russian invaders delivered six nuclear warheads in Crimea, - Dzhemilev The Russian occupants deployed six nuclear warheads at a rebuilt military base in the vicinity of Kyzyltash mountain area in Crimea. 34 503 58 Previously in trend: Occupied territories - Crimea and Donbas

Ban Ki-moon condemns North Korean nuclear test Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test and started discussing taking "significant measures," including new sanctions. 2 718 56 World

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North Korea threatened to launch nuclear strike against US North Korea on Saturday accused the United States of seeking to invade the communist state in the near future and threatened to launch a nuclear strike. 60 700 236 World

U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announces formal authorization of production engineering phase of B61-12 warhead The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) announced that they recently formally authorized the production engineering phase of its B61-12 warhead life extension program (LEP). 34 532 76 World

"Apparently, Mrs. Prime Minister has not yet been brought up to speed with foreign affairs," – Russia’s Peskov on Theresa May’s statement on threats to UK from Russia Statements by British Prime Minister Theresa May about the threat to the UK from Russia may indicate her incompetence in foreign policy. 25 384 103 World

Threats to UK from Russia and North Korea "remain very real," PM Theresa May says Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa May insists that threats to the UK from countries such as Russia and North Korea "remain very real." 45 754 255 World

"It is time for Ash Carter's major speech on nuclear deterrence to answer and rebut loose words coming from Moscow," - Steven Pifer Secretary of Defense Ash Carter should go beyond questioning the Kremlin’s tactic of nuclear saber-rattling and more specifically rebut the Russian leadership’s misguided notion of nuclear brinksmanship. 13 661 82 World

Russia dislocated 80,000 soldiers and nuclear rocket systems in Crimea, - Dzhemilev Russia gradually turns occupied Crimea into a huge military base. 37 345 217 Previously in trend: Occupied territories - Crimea and Donbas

Threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism remains one of greatest challenges to international community - Nuclear Security Summit Communiqué The 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington was the last one in that format. International Atomic Energy Agency is to deal with the corresponding issues afterwards. 6 041 38 World

Disarmament was right move as nuclear weapons not guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity, - US Department of State Ukraine has done the right thing by giving away its nuclear weapons stockpiles under the Budapest Memorandum. 19 968 250 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

путин Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons, - Stoltenberg The threshold for using nuclear weapons must not be lowered. 226 219 1 220 World

Ukraine urges Budapest Memorandum parties to hold consultations, - Klimkin on Lavrov's statement Russia renders the Budapest Memorandum as selectively as it treats the Minsk agreements, so Ukraine encourages all guarantor-states to hold new consultations. 36 446 170 Ukrainian Politics

Russia will improve nuclear weapons as security protection – Putin Having launched a hybrid war against Ukraine, Russia's president Vladimir Putin has said today that he will continue to improve Russia's nuclear arsenal, but only in a bid to deter potential threats to his country. 40 913 26 World

Poland to appeal to NATO on placement of nuclear weapons on its territory Poland’s Defense Ministry is considering asking for access to nuclear weapons through the NATO program in which non-nuclear states borrow the arms from the U.S., deputy defense minister Tomasz Szatkowski said. 20 199 180 World

турчинов Failure to comply with Budapest Memorandum proved that disarmament was senseless – Turchynov When Russia destroyed the system of collective security, the paradigm of the new age transformed into the medieval mode of the "right of the force," posing a potential threat to everybody. 70 978 508 Ukrainian Politics

пентагон pentagon Pentagon names Russia #1 threat to United States Possessing nuclear weapons and being able to use them, Russia is the foremost threat to the U.S. 71 187 918 Incidents

порошенко пресс-конференция poroshenko Ukraine needs just 1,240 Javelin missiles to deter further Russian aggression, Poroshenko says President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko says that 1,240 was the number of nuclear warheads Ukraine gave up under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, jointly signed by the U.S., Britain and Russia. 113 656 888 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Dzhemilev urges Ankara to impose sanctions against Russia: "Nuclear weapons brought to Crimea will be directed to Turkey in the first place" Representative of the President for the Crimean Tatar People, Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Poroshenko Bloc faction Mustafa Dzhemilev calls on Turkey to impose sanctions against Russia. 18 198 91 Previously in trend: Sanctions against Russia Occupied territories - Crimea and Donbas

Germany It is better to talk to Moscow from a position of strength - German Defense Minister German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen defends the Western plans to modernize the military arsenal. 51 990 533 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

великобритания US nuclear missiles may return to Britain over Russian threat, Britain's Foreign Secretary says Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says Government will consider hosting nuclear weapons produced by the U.S. for first time since Cold War. 26 706 306 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

турчинов на полигоне Turchynov does not rule out talks on deployment of ballistic missile defense on the territory of Ukraine Ukraine is strengthening defense of its border against the aggressor. 70 505 431 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine

Russian occupants working around the clock to restore nuclear weapons storage near Yalta - Dzhemilev After occupation of Crimea, Russia works 24/7 to restore storage of nuclear weapons in Kyzyltash area near Yalta. 40 149 237 Previously in trend: Occupied territories - Crimea and Donbas

россия сша бомба ядерная Russian analyst urges nuclear attack on the United States Russian geopolitical analyst Konstantin Sivkov has called for Moscow to launch a nuclear attack on Yellowstone National Park and the San Andreas fault line arguing that NATO aggression against Russia required the “complete destruction of the enemy.” 594 0 Incidents

ядерный Russian ambassador to Denmark threatened nuclear strike against the country Russia's ambassador to Denmark has said Moscow could send nuclear missiles against the country. 248 353 1 333 World

"We were ready to do it," Putin admitted he could use nuclear weapons while annexing Crimea Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Kremlin could alert nuclear forces if annexation of Crimea did not go well. 312 364 2 098 Previously in trend: Occupation of Crimea

Russia’s foreign minister believes they can deploy nuclear weapons in annexed Crimea Crimea became part of Russia, which, in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, has nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says. 43 724 242 Previously in trend: Occupation of Crimea

Ukraine Will Not Restore Its Nuclear Arsenal – Poroshenko Ukraine will not try to restore its nuclear arsenal. 28 046 526 Ukrainian Politics

оружие Russia' Forces 'Capable of Being Nuclear' Moved to Crimea - NATO Russian forces "capable of being nuclear" are being moved to the Crimean Peninsula. 94 401 426 Previously in trend: Russian aggression against Ukraine Occupation of Crimea

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