During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low Earth orbit, then de-orbiting them onto the United States with almost no ...

In the summer of 1908, a blast over remote Siberia flattened trees across an area larger than some countries and lit the sky as far away as Europe. With no crater, no confirmed meteorite fragments and ...

From hypersonic glide vehicles to solid-fuel ICBMs, these weapons are compressing challenging global missile defense systems.

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

Japan is reviving nuclear power, balancing the need for more clean energy against the lingering trauma of the 2011 Fukushima ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of violating international maritime law after the seizure of the tanker Marinera, saying promises made at the “highest level” to ...

It seems like you can't even hide from drones under the sea now, with General Atomics (GA) flight-testing its MQ-9B ...

Vladimir Putin has been dealt a major blow as drones have hit a top secret super-weapon testing hub site at Kapustin Yar, ...

Regional threats and doubts about the reliability of extended deterrence are pushing technically capable non-nuclear states ...