Category: Nuclear weapons

After Russia, North Korea is surfing on the fantasy of the nuclear torpedo capable of creating a Tsunami

On March 1, 2018, during a televised address as part of the presidential election campaign, President Vladimir Putin publicly announced the upcoming arrival, within the Russian armed forces, of 6 new weapons that will bring the world, and Westerners in particular, to “listen to Russia again,” in his words. Beyond the hypersonic weapons Kinzhal and Avangard as well as the new ICBM Sarmat, all now well known, the Russian president presented a "nuclear-powered" cruise missile, the 9M730 Burevestnik, an anti-aircraft and laser space defense system designated Peresvet , as well as a weapon that, since its presentation, arouses many…

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Faced with NATO, Vladimir Putin announces the strengthening of the Russian nuclear triad

Two days ago, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of the New Start Treaty, we wrote that this decision paved the way for a future build-up of Russia's operational nuclear arsenal, the latter being today today the only asset remaining in the hands of the head of the Kremlin, to justify Russia's status as a superpower on the international scene, while its conventional forces have been very severely reduced by a year of war in Ukraine. It only took two days, and despite the skeptical comments of some journalists on this subject, for the…

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Why did V. Putin announce the suspension of the New Start treaty on the limitation of nuclear weapons?

After the Cuban missile crisis, both Americans and Soviets perceived the existential danger represented by the disproportionate nuclear arsenal held by the two superpowers, but also the colossal costs that this arms race engendered for the two countries. However, it took almost 7 years for the two countries to begin discussions on this subject. These will be conducted in Helsinki in November 1969, to give birth on May 26, 1972 to the first strategic arms regulation treaty, called Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, or SALT. This planned to freeze the number of ICBM ballistic missiles held by the two camps at their level…

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It's a good time to exit the deterrent investments from the budget deficit

France invests, each year, between 5 and 7 billion euros to finance the most important component of its defence, namely its nuclear deterrence. Relying on 4 Triomphant-class ballistic missile submarines, each armed with 16 M45 and M51 intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as two squadrons of Rafale fighters armed with ASMPA supersonic nuclear missiles, French deterrence is designed to keep in check any adversary who comes to threaten the country or its strategic interests, even if it is itself equipped with a deterrent force. In the years to come, with the development of new 3rd generation nuclear ballistic missile submarines…

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War in Ukraine and biohazard would threaten humanity's survival like never before

In 1947, on the initiative of Albert Einstein, the University of Chicago published for the first time in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist the Clock of the End of the World, or Doomsday Clock in English. This clock represented the time that humanity had left, since its appearance, before a cataclysmic event of the Nuclear War type came to eradicate it. In 1947, the clock was set at 23:53 p.m., 7 minutes before the apocalypse. This value, calculated empirically, served as a reference point for future annual assessments, so as to present in a simple and effective way the increase or decrease in risk, according to the college of scientists (including around ten…

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North Korea will invest almost 16% of its GDP in its defense in 2023

For many Western countries, in Europe as in Asia, achieving a defense effort equal to 2% of its Gross Domestic Product constitutes a sufficient objective to guarantee its security, and even a very ambitious objective for some like Belgium which are struggling to achieve a defense effort of 1,5% of GDP. The perception is very different in other countries, depending on the perceived threat or the ambitions of its leaders. Thus, the United States devotes 3,7% of its annual production of wealth to its armies, and Russia will devote, in 2023, more than 5% of its GDP to this effort. Korea…

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Is French on-board hunting threatened by the next military programming law?

In order to meet the security challenges imposed by geopolitical and technological developments, in particular the emergence of new significant military threats, including in Europe, President Emmanuel Macron announced, shortly after his re-election, that a new Planning Law would be designed to be presented in the first quarter of 2023, and voted on immediately by Parliament, probably before the summer break. Beyond a strategic review of the most obscure, mixing in its conclusions strategic objectives, means and cooperation, it is since then very difficult to obtain from the Ministry of the Armed Forces as well as from the General Staff, information on the content of…

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The first Russian Su-35se should arrive at the end of winter in Iran

While Iranian defense industries have made immense progress in some areas in recent years, such as drones, but also Baltic and cruise missiles and anti-aircraft systems, Tehran's armies remain often, depending on the area, poorly equipped with obsolete equipment inherited from the Sha era of the late 70s. This is particularly the case for the air forces which, apart from Chinese and Russian fighters acquired in the 90s, use F5, F4 and F-14 aircraft almost 50 years old. In fact, the announcement made by the Iranian authorities this Sunday through…

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Faced with the North Korean threat, the South Korean president wants to deploy nuclear weapons on his soil

2022 will have been a year of extreme tension in the world. But while much attention is focused on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, other potential conflicts have rapidly developed throughout this year on the planet. This is the case of the island of Taiwan, the object of the ambitions of Chinese President Xi Jinping, but also of the Persian Gulf with the rise of Iranian military capacities, or even of the Caucasus, with the fighting opposing Armenian and Azeri forces around of Nagorno-Karabash. But the most intense theater today is none other than the Korean peninsula, while North Korea has carried out no less…

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After Iran, will Russia also modernize the North Korean armies?

Since the Panmunjeom ceasefire signed on July 27, 1953, the Korean peninsula has remained one of the most intense points of tension on the planet. The nuclearization of Pyongyang, starting from the first successful test of a North Korean nuclear weapon on October 9, 2006, then from a first hydrogen bomb in January 2016, considerably changed the status of this frozen but unfinished conflict in the absence of an official armistice. However, if the North Korean armies line up considerable forces, with nearly 1,3 million men under the flag, 600.000 reservists, more than 4000 tanks, 2500 armored vehicles, 8000 artillery systems or even 500 aircraft…

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