THE Doomsday Clock has been pushed closer than ever to midnight in a stark warning that humanity is edging dangerously near to catastrophe. Scientists today moved the symbolic timepiece forward to

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.

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.

MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russia is still waiting for the United States to respond to President Vladimir Putin's proposal to informally extend for a year the provisions of the last remaining nuclear arms pact between the two countries,

In a hypothetical nuclear war involving Russia, China and the United States, the island of Greenland would be in the middle of Armageddon. The strategic importance of the Arctic territory — under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia could take on their way to incinerating targets in the United States,

"It is the use of nuclear risk as a tool of coercion," Ukraine's foreign minister said.

During the Cold War, the biggest fear for powerful nations was not only losing a nuclear war, but also losing the ability to respond at all. Specifically, if enemy attacks destroyed missile silos and air bases,

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.

A Cold War nuclear bunker hanging from a cliff edge could now be just weeks, if not days, away from falling into the sea.

The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace and stability: As of this month, the world has gone the longest time without a nuclear explosion since the atomic era began more than 80 years ago.