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The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis. The first half of the year will see two key events: the ...

When NewSTART (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, 2010) expires on February 5, 2026, Russia and the U.S. will face the prospect of a new nuclear arms race unconstrained by bilateral agreements. Since ...

I imagined Minecraft mobs living near a nuclear plant. Trump admin reacts after James Comey, Letitia James Cases dismissed ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ cast reunites for 30th anniversary special: The ...

THE INCIPIENT nuclear-arms race may start in earnest in 2026. New START, the last treaty limiting American and Russian long-range nuclear weapons, expires in February. There will not be enough time to ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

The president's announcement that the U.S. would resume tests leaves questions. President Donald Trump raised questions Wednesday night about a decades-old U.S. prohibition on testing its nuclear ...

U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder. As we mentioned in last month’s article on what is believed to have been ...

Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit is partnering with the nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC to see if it can help it generate almost unlimited amounts of clean energy using its ...

The United States has periodically sought to advance its national security interests through the negotiation and conclusion of nuclear arms control agreements with its adversaries. Throughout 2025, ...

On Aug. 27, Beijing rejected out-of-hand President Trump’s call for denuclearization talks with China and Russia. It’s not hard to figure out why China is in no mood to talk about the world’s most ...

How do you control a nuclear space propulsion system? Very carefully. To help with this, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has built a simulated nuclear reactor test bed to develop the engines ...