In the height of the Cold War, the United States fielded one of the smallest—and strangest—nuclear weapons ever designed: the Davy Crockett. This portable recoilless rifle system could fire a tactical nuclear warhead from the battlefield,

EADaily, October 30th, 2025. Russia has at its disposal an argument comparable to tactical nuclear weapons — this is the Oreshnik complex already used on the battlefield last November, said political analyst Alexei Pilko,

The emerging, yet mysterious Chinese H-20 stealth bomber is very much on the Pentagon radar, as it is expected to arrive within a few years as a rival to the US B-21 and bring unprecedented ranges and nuclear-capable, high-altitude broadband stealth to the ...

If you actually go into thinking about what Russia's actual incentives to use nuclear weapons in any sort of practical context would be. If you do that, you end up, at least I end up, being much less concerned because ultimately the only scenario in which they're likely to actually consider seriously using one would be if their military is essentially breaking or broken on the battlefield and they feel like that's the only option they have left,

It might seem like a paradox: be ready to fight a limited “tactical” nuclear war and maintain an ability to ensure catastrophic annihilation of an enemy with nuclear weapons to keep the peace. This contradiction forms the conceptual basis for the ...

A swarm of Russian drones flies into Poland in what officials there regard as a deliberate provocation. NATO responds by bolstering the alliance’s air defenses on its eastern flank. Moscow showcases its conventional and nuclear military might in long ...