The decision to change Russia's official nuclear doctrine is the Kremlin's answer to a reported decision by the ...

The United States was not surprised by Russia's announced change in its nuclear doctrine and does not plan to adjust its own ...

Moscow's decision to lower the threshold for a nuclear attack came as the Kremlin responded furiously to the U.S. allowing ...

The previous doctrine, set out in a 2020 decree, said Russia may use nuclear weapons in case of a nuclear attack by an enemy ...

While the Kremlin’s broadening of nuclear posture seems alarming, experts say future escalation could take a different path.

Earlier on Tuesday, Moscow’s Defence Ministry said Ukraine had struck Russia’s Bryansk region with six missiles, and that air ...

The nuclear doctrine states that final authority to use nuclear weapons rests with the President, and the changes are ...

Putin revises Russia’s doctrine, threatening nuclear retaliation against conventional threats, signaling heightened tensions ...

The Ukraine war has not only shattered millions of lives and shaken Europe. It also has inured Washington to the use of ...

The United States was not surprised by Russia lowering its threshold for a nuclear strike and does not plan to adjust its own nuclear posture in response, the White House said on Tuesday.

The war in Ukraine has reached a tense milestone as Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a new decree broadening the ...