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Nuclear Weapons
Macron signals openness to stationing French nuclear weapons abroad
PARIS (Realist English). French President Emmanuel Macron has announced his readiness to initiate formal discussions with European allies about the...
Putin: Restraint on nuclear response prevented global catastrophe
MOSCOW (Realist English). President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia deliberately refrained from using nuclear weapons during the ongoing conflict...
States invest in nuclear arsenals as geopolitical relations deteriorate — SIPRI
STOCKHOLM (Realist English). A Swedish think tank has sounded the alarm over the growing number of operational nuclear weapons in...
Russia has no more trump cards in the nuclear deck than in the conventional one: political scientist
MOSCOW (Realist English). Moscow's decision to suspend the implementation of START-3 (in terms of ensuring the inspection regime) has generated...
Nuclear-armed nations spent $82.4 billion to modernize their arsenals in 2021
GENEVA (Realist English). The world's leading military powers have spent $82.4 billion to modernize their nuclear weapons in 2021. This...
Iran war exposes global reliance on fragile energy routes
LONDON (Realist English). The war involving Iran has exposed the global economy’s dependence on vulnerable fossil fuel supply routes, intensifying...
Taiwan fears US weapons use in Iran could aid China
TAIPEI (Realist English). Taiwan has raised concerns that extensive US use of long-range cruise missiles in the war involving Iran...
Strait of Hormuz disruption sends shockwaves through global trade
LONDON (Realist English). Escalating military tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are rapidly disrupting global shipping and energy markets, as...
Iran war puts Vice President JD Vance in difficult political position
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The ongoing war with Iran has placed US Vice President JD Vance in a politically sensitive position,...
Star Wars without fiction: how space became the next battlefield
MOSCOW (Realist English). “Star Wars” stopped being science fiction long ago. Unfortunately, over ten thousand years of civilisation, humanity has...
Dadivank: The Legacy of Christ’s Apostles in Artsakh
YEREVAN (Realist English). In Artsakh, before the ethnic cleansing and forced deportation – simply put, genocide – carried out by...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
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