Deadly tensions between India and Pakistan are boiling over in Kashmir, a disputed territory at the northern border of each country. A regional conflict is worrisome enough, but climate scientists ...

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 ...

And, therefore, it's possible to think in terms of a "limited nuclear war," with limited nuclear use. So, I worry greatly that not only will we have a war between the United States and China ...

That the so called "limited nuclear war" does not exist," he said. The Russian leader reiterated that "the current head of the regime in Kiev, when he was still a fairly legitimate head of state ...

Russia has never favored the US idea of limited nuclear war, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. Russia will take all necessary measures to protect ...

It was on this basis that Kissinger advanced his doctrine of limited nuclear war. Many people recoiled from Kissinger’s seemingly cold-blooded contemplation of a limited nuclear war. Yet both ...

Time for Change America's outdated nuclear deterrence policy is hindering the country's missile defense program, constraining ...

A single warhead can demolish a city center. A full-fledged nuclear war would threaten life as we know it. But with the right policies and safeguards, we can help protect against mistakes, accidents, ...

Even that "limited" nuclear-war scenario, he found, would cripple the ozone layer, expose people to harmful amounts of ultraviolet radiation, and lower Earth's surface temperatures for more than ...

More than 100 medical journals across the world issued a rare joint call on Thursday for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons, warning that the threat of nuclear catastrophe was “great and ...

Back in 1984, the BBC broadcast an apocalyptic TV film about World War 3 that terrified audiences. Nominated for seven BAFTAs, Threads imagined a nuclear war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

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 ...