Nuclear war

"In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour," said Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russia's Roscosmos space agency.

Russia plans a rare flight of the Ilyushin Il-80, which is designed to accommodate top officials in the event of a nuclear war, during its coming "Victory Day" march.

Russian Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Alexey Zaitsev said that nuclear war "must not be unleashed."

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

"We have those weapons in space right now, aimed right at Vlad," the former Fox News host said.

When a solar flare knocked out radio communications during the Cold War, disaster was narrowly averted. Experts discuss how likely this scenario is today.

"But we will go to heaven, while they will simply croak."

This comes one day after Russia's top diplomat said nuclear weapons were a viable option.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that "all parties should...support dialogue and negotiation to prevent the expansion and prolongation of conflicts."

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said "there can be no winners in a nuclear war."

"The danger is serious, real," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said of a potential nuclear war. "And we must not underestimate it."

Vladimir Putin retains overall favorability with 86 percent of his own citizens but only 4 percent of Americans expressed at least somewhat favorable views of the Russian leader.

Countries behave "too boldly" and they don't realize we can "handle them way faster" than Ukraine, a Russian TV panelist warned.

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov referred to the country's "concept of domestic security" when asked about nuclear warfare.

Strong powers completely failed to deter a conventional attack by a weak one, so we should now be prepared for deterrence to fail again.

A mistake—a Russian plane crossing into NATO territory or a NATO plane into Ukraine airspace—could bring the nuclear superpowers into direct conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear forces into "special combat readiness" after invading Ukraine.

A top Pentagon official recently warned China could soon become capable of launching a "surprise" nuclear attack against the United States.

The strange statement elicited a slew of panicked responses from those on Twitter who were quick to ask for clarification.

Robertson said Trump's re-election will usher in an era of assassination attempts, civil unrest, world war and ultimately the "End Times."

No single human being should be able to wield moral culpability for an action that could lead to millions of lives lost.

What if all the Constitutional successors are incapacitated? Standby orders were issued more than three weeks ago to protect Washington and also prepare for the possibility of some form of martial law.

"More people could die outside the conflict areas due to famine than due to the direct effects of the war," researcher Jonas Jägermeyr said

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists will reveal the clock hands' current position on Thursday. In 2019, they were at two minutes before midnight.

Pakistani's Azad Kashmir President Masood Khan recently told Newsweek a war with India would "be tantamount to nuclear Armageddon."

It seems Kim Jong Un is taking a page from America's foreign policy playbook. Trump has now made the problem much worse.

Nuclear war "might lead to the collapse of civilization," Putin said in his annual Q&A with domestic and foreign media.

Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin's press secretary, said Monday that the Russian president did not specifically mean that Russians would go to heaven but was speaking in an "allegory," against the backdrop of President Donald Trump's threat that the U.S. would withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Moscow.

"This sobering reality should encourage leaders on both sides to find ways of resolving political, economic, and military disputes without resorting to a war that could rapidly turn catastrophic for the region and the world," wrote Caitlin Talmadge, an associate professor of security studies at Georgetown University.

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