A draft Pentagon report suggests that China has likely loaded more than 100 DF-31 nuclear missiles into silos near its border ...

Russia's war with Ukraine has escalated into a "nuclear crisis," with far-reaching implications for nuclear deterrence, nonproliferation, disarmament, and the future of peaceful nuclear energy, a ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a package of memos to the president. To download a free PDF of this memo, click here. Mr. President, as you know, as president, you must approve any use of nuclear ...

President Donald Trump on Saturday night announced American warplanes dropped bombs on three nuclear sites in Iran, with the U.S. officially entering the war more than a week after Israel’s initial ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. As the world became more dangerous in 2024, the use of its most dangerous weapons has become more likely. This trajectory raises the stakes ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic senators representing states that bore the brunt of the fallout from explosive nuclear weapons testing are seeking to pass legislation that would bar President Donald Trump ...

Key Points - While Israel launched a massive preemptive air assault on Iran's nuclear facilities on June 13th, it possesses a significant, albeit officially unacknowledged, nuclear arsenal of its own ...

Experts warn that Vladamir Putin's claims have not been independently verified. Earlier this week, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that his government has finalized testing of a new nuclear ...

The Cold War prospect of global annihilation has faded from consciousness, but the warheads remain. June 4, 2025 Jon B. Wolfsthal is the director of global risk at the Federation of American ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

New Delhi controls around 172 nuclear weapons, according to the Arms Control Association. Pakistan has approximately 170 nuclear warheads. India and Pakistan, two ...