A nuclear bunker that was teetering on the edge of a rapidly eroding cliff is now at the mercy of the sea after collapsing further. The brick building, near Tunstall, East Yorkshire, is believed to be almost 70 years old and was designed as a monitoring post in the event of a nuclear war.

An ally and former adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and former President Boris Yeltsin said the country could use nuclear weapons against Europe should Russia ever be on the verge of defeat in its ongoing war with Ukraine.

Ukraine nuclear facilities face Russian attack threats as Moscow weighs strikes on power substations to force capitulation, officials say. Zaporizhzhia is a primary target.

A Norwegian rocket launched on 25 January 1995 in order to study the Northern Lights, was mistaken by Russia for an incoming nuclear missile on a direct course to Moscow.

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a 160-foot gash across the frozen bay. All four thermonuclear weapons detonated their conventional high explosives.

The chilling threats come ahead of the first trilateral face-to-face talks involving Russian, Ukrainian and US officials in Abu Dhabi later today.

Sergey Karaganov, a former adviser to Vladimir Putin, warned that Russia could deploy nuclear weapons if it came close to defeat.

Iran does not want war with Israel or the U.S., but is ready to fight back if attacked, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says.

People have been asked to avoid an area of coastline where a Cold War -era nuclear bunker clinging onto the edge of a cliff could be “days away” from falling into the sea.

President Donald Trump’s former Department of Homeland Security chief of staff admitted that Trump’s people were already preparing plans of action for nuclear war in Trump’s first term. And that was back when Trump had reasonably sane staff.

A nuclear historian has identified 15 American cities most vulnerable to attack if global conflict erupts, with several surprising small towns ranking alongside major metropolitan centres.