During the Cold War, the MAD theory — mutually assured destruction — argued that the United States and the Soviet Union had a ...

Total inventories of nuclear warheads declined to about 12,000 warheads in 2025 from a peak of more than 70,000 in 1986, but ...

Adm. Tony Radakin says Russia's nuclear threats and China's expanding arsenal tossed the world into a new era. LONDON — The world is entering a “third nuclear age,” the head of the British armed ...

The security architecture being in force until recently has stopped fulfilling its function, and the termination of the START Treaty is ...

Amid growing international chaos, it should come as no surprise that nuclear dangers are increasing. The latest indication is a rising interest among U.S. allies in enhancing their nuclear weapons ...

For the first time in over 50 years, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia.

Chris, Zack, and Melanie sit down to talk about America’s nuclear policy. Are we in a new “nuclear age,” as some Biden administration officials and experts have argued? Does a bleak security ...

Yet January 14th marked the longest period humankind has gone without one or another part of the whole exploding one of these ...

Humanity entered a new era where a single weapon could destroy entire cities. Early nuclear tests after World War Two showed the world the true power of atomic technology. The United States and Soviet ...

Color photo of the mushroom cloud from the Trinity Test in 1945, taken by Jack Aeby Eighty years ago Wednesday, on July 16, 1945, the world changed forever when the first atomic bomb was detonated in ...

“Nuclear… We can’t let people throw around that word. I call it the N-Word. There are two N-words, and you can’t use either of them. And, frankly, if it does ...

Nuclear weapons focus the mind. So when India and Pakistan fight, the world watches, because any clash between the two could become the first nuclear war since 1945. The most recent round of their ...