Nuclear Test
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Russia to restart nuclear tests? President Putin asks officials to 'gather information'
World | Nov 05, 2025, 09:33 PM ISTRussian President Vladimir Putin speaking at a security council meeting in Moscow, ordered officials to study the feasibility of restarting nuclear tests. Putin emphasised that Russia’s nuclear forces are modern and strong, while his spokesperson clarified that no immediate testing has been ordered.
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'Pakistan testing nuclear weapons, US also needs to': Trump defends decision to resume nuke tests
World | Nov 03, 2025, 02:00 PM ISTDonald Trump said Russia's testing and China's testing, but they don't talk about it. "We're an open society. We're different. We talk about it. We have to talk about it because otherwise you people are going to report. They don't have reporters that are going to be writing about it," Trump stated.
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Trump plans to restart US nuclear testing: Complete list of deadly weapons US has to blow up world
World | Nov 03, 2025, 11:18 AM ISTDonald Trump said his decision came after realising that the US cannot be the only country that does not carry out tests, despite having a massive arsenal.
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NATO freezes Cold War-era security pact after Russia revokes ratification of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
World | Nov 07, 2023, 11:30 PM ISTLast week, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill revoking Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty-- a move that he said was needed to establish parity with the United States.
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Putin oversaw test firing of ballistic missiles, says Kremlin | DETAILS
World | Oct 26, 2023, 06:09 AM ISTThe exercise comes after Russia's upper House of the Parliament, the Federal Council, approved the revocation of the ratification of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty.
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Vajpayee rejected idea to become President, given unfinished task by ex-PM, reveals his advisor
India | Oct 21, 2023, 04:23 PM ISTAshok Tandon was media relations in-charge in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's PMO from 1998-2004. He made these revelations in his new book 'The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation'.
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Putin announces successful test of nuclear-powered missile, warns to end policy on atomic bomb tests
World | Oct 06, 2023, 11:13 AM ISTIt's a Burevestnik nuclear-powered global-range cruise missile which has been tested by Russia. The missile was codenamed as Skyfall by NATO, however, the Russian President didn't elaborate much about the atomic bomb.
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Russia suspends involvement in key nuclear arms pact. Is world on the brink of nuclear war?
World | Feb 24, 2023, 02:36 AM ISTMaking the statement during his state-of-the-nation address, Putin said that Moscow was suspending its participation in the New START treaty — the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the United States amid tensions with Washington over Ukraine war.
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South Korea says North completed preparations for new nuclear test
World | Jun 14, 2022, 01:45 PM ISTA possible new nuclear test by North Korea would be the seventh of its kind. Some experts say North Korea will likely use the test to build warheads to be mounted on tactical nuclear weapons aimed at hitting targets in South Korea.
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North Korea may conduct nuclear test around Joe Biden's visit to South Korea, Japan this week
World | May 19, 2022, 11:20 AM ISTNorth Korea in recent months has test-launched a spate of missiles in what experts call an attempt to modernize its weapons and pressure its rivals to accept the country as a nuclear state and relax their sanctions.
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North Korea slams United States, hints at resuming nuclear, ICBM tests
World | Jan 20, 2022, 08:33 AM ISTThe North’s Foreign Ministry had already warned of stronger and more explicit action after the Biden administration last week imposed fresh sanctions over the North’s continued missile testing activity.
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Pak achieved nuclear capability 'within 7 years' of India carrying out its 1st nuke test: Prez Alvi
World | Aug 14, 2021, 03:12 PM ISTAddressing the flag hoisting ceremony held at the President House to celebrate Pakistan's 75th Independence Day, Alvi said over the past 74 years, "three wars were forced upon us", however, the nation kept moving on despite the challenges.
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Nawaz Sharif was against conducting 1998 nuclear tests in response to India's: Sheikh Rasheed
World | May 30, 2020, 06:23 PM ISTPakistan's Railways Minister Shiekh Rashid on Saturday claimed that the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif was against conducting the nuclear tests in 1998 in response to India's tests.
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Cold War nuclear tests changed rainfall thousands of kms away
Science | May 14, 2020, 11:13 PM ISTNuclear bomb tests during the Cold War led to increased rainfall thousands of kilometres from the detonation sites, new research has found.
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2017 North Korean nuke test equal to '17 Hiroshimas': ISRO study
Science | Nov 15, 2019, 04:16 PM ISTThe 2017 nuclear test by North Korea shifted the ground by a few metres, and was 17 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945, according to scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
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India doesn't need nuclear tests again; got desired results from 1998 trials: former AEC chief
India | Jul 17, 2019, 07:26 PM ISTIndia does not need to conduct more nuclear trials as it achieved the desired results from the 1998 tests at Pokhran, former Atomic Energy Commission chairman R Chidambaram said on Wednesday.
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India offered strategic access to Nuclear test ban body CTBTO
India | May 16, 2019, 12:28 PM ISTThe Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation (CTBTO) has offered India an "Observer" status and access to International Monitoring System (IMS) data.
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All you need to know about John Abraham’s Parmanu-The Story of Pokhran
Bollywood | May 24, 2018, 12:16 PM ISTParmanu- The Story of Pokhran is based on the nuclear bomb test explosions that Indian Army covertly conducted in Pokhran in 1998
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un promises no more nuclear or missile tests
News | Apr 21, 2018, 10:57 AM ISTNorth Korea said on Saturday it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site ahead of a new round of negotiations with South Korea and the United States.
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200 killed in tunnel collapse at North Korea’s nuclear site: Report
World | Oct 31, 2017, 06:26 PM ISTMore than 200 people were killed when a tunnel at North Korea’s Punggye-ri nuclear test site had collapsed after the sixth atomic test in September, according to a Japanese media report.