During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

President Donald Trump ordered the construction of a new missile defense system covering the United States, the latest move ...

As the world became more dangerous in 2024, the use of its most dangerous weapons has become more likely. More From Our ...

Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...

Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation control and first-strike stability.

Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

The risk of nuclear war is certainly one big reason why the ... The era when the number of those centers is relatively few may be limited. While the past few years have been a grim time for ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile and ...

His focus is on reporting on the Ukraine and Russia war. Jon previously worked at ... treaty between Moscow and Washington that limited nuclear arsenals. A Russian RS-24 Yars nuclear missile ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Studies in 2008 and 2014 found that of one hundred bombs that were fifteen-kilotons were used, it would blast five million tons of fine, sooty... Here’s What ...

It added: "Moscow and Beijing appear now to calculate that their respective threats to escalate to limited nuclear war will be sufficient to paralyze direct US opposition to their regional ...

The path to resurgent fears of nuclear war began in 1945 ... The NPT gives the United Nations atomic agency only limited powers to prevent that. President Kennedy’s warning of the perils ...