Russia has held several rounds of tactical nuclear weapons drills this year, and regularly carries out military exercises for its strategic nuclear forces.

TOKYO, March 28. /TASS/. On March 27, North Korea simulated a nuclear explosion using ground-to-ground ballistic missiles, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday. According to ...

The smallest tactical nuclear weapons can be one kiloton or less (producing the equivalent to a thousand tonnes of the explosive TNT). The largest ones can be as big as 100 kilotons. Strategic ...

The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, ...

The new device will replace Russia's outdated IU-59 nuclear explosion simulator ... Putin said in July 2023 that the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Minsk's control was "an element ...

Tactical or non-strategic nuclear weapons are meant for more limited strikes or use on the battlefield over a shorter range while strategic nuclear weapons typically have higher explosive yields ...

The CTBT, agreed in 1996, bans "any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear ... In June, Russia stationed a first batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Mr Putin told a forum ...

Russia has already handed over Iskander-M tactical missile systems capable of using missiles with both conventional and nuclear warheads to the Belarusian armed forces MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/.