Ukrainian Georgy Kistyakovsky helped Oppenheimer create a nuclear bomb, and then advised three US presidents to abandon it. His story is told by Babel. Among the characters in Christopher Nolan's film "Oppenheimer" is the scientist George Kistiakowski. This American physicist and chemist of Ukrainian origin was one of…

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that his country began to receive Russian tactical nuclear weapons. According to him, some warheads are three times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to Reuters. "We have missiles...

The 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, deplored his role in Ukraine's nuclear disarmament in the 1990s. He suggested that otherwise Russia might not have made a full-scale invasion, according to Ukrayinska Pravda. Clinton said this in an interview...

Russia will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, noting that for the first time since the mid-1990s, Moscow will deploy such weapons outside the country. Reuters writes about it. Putin made this statement at a time of rising tensions...

Historian and co-founder of the Democratic Sokira party Yuri Gudymenko posted on Facebook an overview of historical facts about serious radiation disasters that occurred during the Soviet era. Six large-scale radioactive contamination that the Soviet government concealed - and this is only what we were able to find out about ...

The United States has accelerated the deployment of upgraded nuclear weapons to NATO bases in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter. Politico writes about it. The arrival of the upgraded B61-12 bomb, originally scheduled for next spring, is now scheduled for December this year, the…

Poland is in talks with the United States to participate in a nuclear sharing program to counter Russia's growing threats, Ukrayinska Pravda reports. Andrzej Duda, President of Poland, told Gazeta Polska newspaper about this. “The first problem is that we don’t have…

The US and its allies will destroy Russian troops and equipment in Ukraine and sink its Black Sea Fleet if Russian President Vladimir Putin uses nuclear weapons in the war, warned former CIA director and retired Army General David Petraeus. About it…

North Korea has finally declared itself a nuclear power and enacted a law allowing it to carry out a preventive nuclear strike. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that this makes the country's nuclear status "irreversible" and prohibits any negotiations on nuclear disarmament. It is reported by the Ukrainian…

The US lost at least three nuclear bombs that were never found. How it happened, where they could be and whether we will ever find them, reports the BBC. It was a warm winter morning at the height of the Cold War. January 17, 1966…