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May 23, 2024 · The Russian army’s massive casualties in occupied Ukraine, and the aborted coup that briefly threatened Putin’s grasp on power, have been followed by his escalating threats on nuclear strikes ...
4 days ago · May 30, 2024 - 6:00pm. Over the past week, another massive red line was crossed in the no-longer-so-proxy war between the West and Russia. On 23 and 28 May, Ukraine conducted long-range drone strikes on two Russian radar stations that are part of the country’s early-warning radar system designed to detect incoming intercontinental ballistic ...
May 6, 2024 · Cuban missile crisis, (October 1962), major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba. Soviet military buildup in Cuba, 1962. Having promised in May 1960 to defend Cuba with Soviet arms, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev assumed that the United ...
5 days ago · Western leaders and Ukraine have played down Russia's warnings about the risk of a broader war involving Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, and NATO, the world's most powerful military ...
4 days ago · Russia's foreign minister has called plans to send Ukraine F-16 fighter jets a "signal action" and touted its nuclear drills in response. He says Moscow hopes it will "knock some sense into our ...
2 days ago · Germany has followed the US in approving strikes inside Russia using its weapons - as Moscow warns the moves could cause a war with NATO. Meanwhile, Ukraine reportedly launched a large missile and ...
5 days ago · Sanchez’s doctoral work included modeling the flights of hypersonic weapons to quantify the ambiguities that could lead to escalation. The key was to evaluate the area of ambiguity for missiles with given sets of properties. Part of the work also involved making recommendations that prevent hypersonic weapons from being used in destabilizing ...
