Experts have warned the U.S. could be on the brink of a nuclear war after decades of simmering tensions with Russia recently ...

The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

Japan should possess nuclear weapons, given the severe surrounding security environment and the questionable reliability of ...

Part of Operation Upshot-Knothole, was a 15-kiloton test fired from a 280-mm cannon on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Proving Grounds. 72 years ago the U.S. Army carried out its first and only nuclear ...

The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a ...

It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails well ...

A "Broken Arrow" is the term that the military uses for when it loses a nuclear weapon, and yes it has happened often enough ...

Amy Nelson examines how Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’ reframes nuclear-crisis risk—and why the film could reshape ...