(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks. Here is some international reaction to Tuesday’s move: WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL “We were not surprised by Russia’s announcement that it would update its nuclear doctrine;…
US stocks recovered from steeper losses in afternoon trading on Tuesday as fears over a nuclear escalation to the Russia-Ukraine war rattled markets, stealing focus from Nvidia (NVDA) earnings and other corporate results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) led the declines, down about 0.5% but off of the lows of the session. The benchmark…
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. Putin’s endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day after he sent troops into Ukraine,…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved an updated nuclear doctrine, saying that Russia could consider using nuclear weapons if it was subject to a conventional missile assault on it supported by a nuclear power. The decision to change Russia’s official nuclear doctrine is the Kremlin’s answer to a reported decision by…
Iran is capable of making nuclear weapons and will change its doctrine to allow their production if it faces an “existential threat,” a senior adviser to the supreme leader of Iran has said. Kamal Kharrazi, head of the Islamic Republic’s strategic council of foreign relations, also said the country was “ready for war” amid speculation…
(Reuters) – Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Friday that Tehran is likely to increase the range of its ballistic missiles and possibly review its nuclear doctrine, amid growing tensions with arch-enemy Israel and tit-for-tat missile and airstrikes. Asked by Lebanon-based pro-Iran broadcaster Al-Mayadeen whether Iran was ready if conflict were…
Russia’s top diplomat warned Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power,” delivering a U.N. General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere — including inside the United Nations itself. Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s…
Vladimir Putin’s statement that Moscow could widen its rules for nuclear weapon use may have redrawn the red line in his atomic intimidation, but is also likely a bluff, experts have told Newsweek. Soon after his full-scale invasion, the Russian president had previously said that countries that interfered in Ukraine would face consequences “never seen…