The global salience of nuclear weapons — once expected to diminish after the Cold War — is instead rising sharply. This ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

The quiet expansion of Beijing’s remote nuclear weapons complex, Lop Nur, points to years of preparation for a potential return to a Cold War-era arms race.

As Moscow threatens to launch nuclear warheads against NATO states helping Ukraine fend off the Russian invaders, the world is edging closer to actual use of these bombs.

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

China's surging nuclear arsenal poses an urgently advancing threat to U.S. national security. The United States must bolster ...

The United States opened the nuclear era in July 1945 with the test of a 20-‌kiloton atomic bomb at Alamogordo, New Mexico, ...

At the height of the Cold War, a new University of Wyoming grad from Buffalo became part of a team testing antiballistic ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

The Age of Disclosure director claims the US military used nuclear weapons in the 1950s to disable UFOs and seize alien ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...