The recent escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war has led to increasing talk of nuclear war, especially following repeated threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin against NATO countries.

At present, the intergovernmental military alliance, NATO, comprises 30 countries from the original ... NATO said that it would take new deterrence and defence steps after the Russian invasion ...

Global military expenditure in 2024 reached $2.718 trillion, a 9.4 percent increase from 2023—the steepest annual rise since ...

The worrying chart details which members of the Western military alliance could be vulnerable to attack from Putin.

and the government in Kyiv applied to join NATO last September. While countries including Poland and others in Eastern Europe favor giving Ukraine a road map toward membership, the U.S., Germany ...