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Ukraine struck two Crimean targets late on Thursday, the Russian head of the annexed peninsula said. Two people were killed in a missile attack near Simferopol, Crimea's main administrative centre. They also hit a building near Alushta, on Crimea's Black Sea coast. Moscow said the facility was empty, while Ukraine's resistance group in Crimea Atesh has reported multiple casualties. The attack comes as Russia gets underway drills in its Southern Military District, which also includes the occupied peninsula of Crimea. The exercise involves tactical nuclear weapons, such as air bombs, warheads fo...
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The aerospace and automobile giant Rolls Royce has recently revealed that it has been successful in securing a contract to provide technology for the next-generation version of the US Air Force’s nuclear-blast resistant aircraft. This aircraft will be the new version of the E-4B planes, dubbed the ‘doomsday plane’, for its capacity to resist electromagnetic pulses and nuclear blasts. This will be part of the Survivable Airborne Operations Centre (SAOC) project, which a number of aerospace companies are working on, headed by Sierra Nevada Corporation. During times of crisis, the E-4B planes can...
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A French plan to offer a nuclear umbrella to Europe has met with support from the German MEP who heads the European People's Party, Manfred Weber, playing into the domestic political debate ahead of June EU elections. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the prospect that a second Donald Trump presidency might weaken the transatlantic alliance, has raised the salience of having a homegrown alternative to NATO. In a TV clip which issued on Thursday (9 May), Weber suggested he favoured plans put forward by French President Emmanuel Macron, and criticised left-wing Chancellor Olaf Scholz for his fai...
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Is a luxury bunker a good investment of at least €7 million given the current geopolitical context in 2024? The ultrarich seem to think so. Oppidum Bunkers, a luxury bunker development company based in Switzerland, says there has been a "steady increase" in enquiries about their products over the last few months. Their customers are inspired more by pop culture than politics, having seen photos of the Hawaiian bunker owned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg or watched the recent Netflix movie 'Leave the World Behind'. If you survive the initial blast, this is what scientists think would happen afte...
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Ukraine fired at least eight missiles at Russia’s Belgorod border region, killing two people and wounding 12, local officials said on Thursday. Russia also said it repelled cross-border incursions by Ukrainian forces in the same area and neighbouring Kursk. Moscow claims its troops killed 195 Ukrainian soldiers, destroyed five tanks and four armoured infantry vehicles - just two days after saying it killed 234 Ukrainian troops in another border assault. It is not possible to independently verify these claims. Cross-border attacks in the area have occurred sporadically since the war began and h...
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By Hera Rizwan A study undertaken by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Northeastern University, and the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Initiative, explored the conduct of five AI models in simulated war scenarios and found that the models chose to escalate even opting for the deployment of nuclear weapons. The study concluded, “All models show signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations.” The researchers said, “We observe that models tend to develop arms-race dynamics, leading to greater conflict, and in rare cases, even to the deployment of nuclear we...
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By BOOM Team Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed that Russia had no intentions of carrying out nuclear strikes on Ukraine amid the raging conflict between the two neighboring countries. "We see no need for that. There is no point in that, neither political nor military," AP quoted Putin speaking at a conference of international foreign policy experts. He was speaking at a conference on Thursday, a day after he monitored Russia's drill of strategic nuclear forces. Ballistic and cruise missiles were launched during the drill, according to a statement issued by the Kremlin. Also ...
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President Joe Biden said on Thursday the risk of a nuclear war has never been as high since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in a striking message about what he called the potential for “armageddon.” Biden delivered the warning as threats made by Russian President Vladimir Putin of using weapons of mass destruction in the invasion of Ukraine put the U.S. military on alert. “We have not faced the prospect of armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” Biden told a crowd at a fundraiser in New York. “We are trying to figure out: What is Putin’s off ramp? Where does he find a way out? W...
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By The Conversation Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, has threatened that Russia will "make use of all weapon systems available to us" if Russia's territorial integrity is threatened. Putin has characterized the war in Ukraine as an existential battle against the West, which he said wants to weaken, divide and destroy Russia. U.S. President Joe Biden criticized Putin's overt nuclear threats against Europe. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg downplayed the threat, sa...
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By BOOM Team President Vladimir Putin's announcement to start military mobilisation amid the ongoing war with Ukraine has triggered huge anti-war protests in Russia. Cracking down on the protesters, the Russian security forces have made over one thousand arrests since Wednesday as people hit the streets opposing Putin's announcement. According to reports, 3,00,000 reservists will be called up as Russia's war with Ukraine continues to destabilise the region for nearly seven months now. Putin's "warning" to the West came a few days before the "referendum" in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporiz...
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