Nuclear triad

President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia's nuclear triad — its three-pronged arsenal of weapons launched from land, sea and air — was "much more" advanced than that of the United States.

"During the training, practical launches of ballistic and cruise missiles were carried out," the announcement states.
State television showed Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu talking to Putin about the exercise.

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, rising tensions between China and Taiwan and other global issues, the US Air Force on Tuesday tested an unarmed nuclear-capable long-range missile, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command.

The report says China could have 700 nuclear warheads by 2027

Ukrainian engineers at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau presented the anti-ship supersonic missile "Lightning", which, according to its creators, is almost "impossible to bring down," according to Russian news agency Izvestia.

The report said current plans for the modernization of the aging planes, ships and missile silos that make up the U.S. nuclear arsenal would cost 50 percent more than if the U.S. only operated and maintained its current equipment in the field.

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NATO and the United States have "no defense" against land-based cruise missiles if Russia deploys them in any quantity, the chief of US Strategic Command told senators, arguing the US must respond to Russian threat "from the position of strength."

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India has quietly completed its nuclear triad by inducting its first indigenously constructed nuclear submarine 'INS Arihant' into service.

The United States has found that Russia violated a 1987 arms control treaty by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, a senior US official said late Monday, calling the matter "very serious."