Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time in more than half a century that the two countries' nuclear programs will be ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

Nuclear weapons are the single-most destructive explosives humanity has created and deployed in warfare. Because of their destructive power that can wipe away whole cities, you'd think that the United ...

Great power competition gives the United States all the more reason to invest in international cooperative frameworks for ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

President Donald Trump's insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland "whether they like it or not" is just the latest ...

A US military strike to support Iran’s protesters would need to be very different from Trump’s operation to target the country’s nuclear facilities.