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This video grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on May 12, 2026, shows the test launch of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile. (Handout / Russian Defense Ministry / AFP)
May 13, 2026, 2:22 pm
Russia tests new nuclear-capable ICBM, which Putin boasts as world’s ‘most powerful’
Sarmat, known by NATO as Satan II, is Russia’s first post-Soviet ‘super heavy’ missile; Putin says it carries warhead 4 times bigger than any US missile, will deploy this year
By Agencies
In this March 30, 2005, file photo, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through part of the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
July 20, 2025, 7:33 am
Iran may still have 400 kilograms of highly enriched uranium. How worried should we be?
Despite Israeli and US strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, material for a bomb could have been towed to another location, or even another country, by pickup truck
By Edwin Black
Iran's domestically built centrifuges are displayed in an exhibition of the country's nuclear achievements, in Tehran, Iran, February 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
December 7, 2024, 6:54 pm
US increasingly worried that Iran is poised to build nukes, intel report says
Document says Tehran not currently building an atomic weapon, but uranium enrichment levels are near weapons-grade, existing stockpiles are enough for over a dozen nuclear warheads
By ToI Staff and Agencies
This undated file photo provided Sept. 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official web site shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP/File)
October 1, 2022, 8:11 am
US would know if Russia preparing nuclear strike on Ukraine, experts say
Analysts say preparations would be visible, and they are ‘quite certain’ there are no hidden facilities; likely Moscow would want West to see what it is doing as a warning
By Paul Handley
In this photo taken from a footage distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sept. 26, 2020, Russian rockets launch from missile systems during the main stage of the Kavkaz-2020 strategic command-and-staff exercises at the Kapustin Yar training ground, Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
February 18, 2022, 2:25 pm
Russia to stage massive nuclear missile drills Saturday, at height of Ukraine crisis
Military says Putin will monitor the large-scale exercise, as tensions with West escalate to highest level since Cold War
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU and DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a news conference on the day after violent protesters loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the US Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
January 9, 2021, 7:26 pm
Pelosi’s talk of limits on Trump’s nuclear power raises old worry
The president has the sole authority to order a US nuclear attack, but some safeguards do exist
By Robert Burns
An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)
December 5, 2019, 4:28 am
UK, Germany and France slam Iran for working on nuclear-capable missiles
In UN letter, Tehran also accused of proliferating ballistic missile technology in the region; Iran insists all its missile activities are legal and not nuclear-related
By Edith M. Lederer
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