Russia offers to put a one-year freeze on the number of its nuclear warheads in return for a similar freeze on the number of the United States’ atomic warheads to facilitate a one-year extension of the last nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries.

A drunken senior Royal Navy officer who tried to take charge of a vessel armed with at least 8 nuclear warheads has raised grave doubts about safety issues related to the UK's so-called nuclear deterrence.