North Korean leader Kim Jong-un emphasized the need to advance nuclear capabilities after observing a hypersonic missile ...

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...

North Korea on Sunday launched what it claimed to be hypersonic missiles into the Sea of Japan in a firing drill. North ...

Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Moscow’s blatant threats to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine’s supporters have confronted Western public opinion with the danger of nuclear escalation for the first ...

Critics and supporters of NATO’s nuclear deterrence posture, which relies partly on forward-deployed U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe, hardly agree on anything. But when it comes to nuclear sharing, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... There are, roughly speaking, three schools of doctrine on nuclear defense. The first and dominant is the line of thought emanating from John ...

Russia is bolstering its strategic arsenal with advanced weapons like the Oreshnik hypersonic missile, now deployed in ...

In a forthcoming paper in AEI’s Affording Defense project, I argue that the US nuclear force structure requires enhanced strike capacity, flexibility, and selectivity. Enhanced strike capacity due to ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

The United States needs a replacement concept for deterrence, the theory that was a child of the Cold War. It no longer is fit for purpose. Why? A war in which there were only losers and no winners ...

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron says that he's ready to start discussions on nuclear deterrence with European allies. Macron has hinted that France could help to protect other nations after U ...

Workers at Sandia National Laboratories prepare the B61-12 nuclear bomb for a vibration test. (NNSA photo) Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Moscow’s blatant threats to use nuclear weapons against ...