Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over ...

A new tool shows the catastrophic impact of a nuclear strike as Russia deploys its “unstoppable” Oreshnik missile, putting ...

The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis.

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

The old mechanisms to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons are too antiquated and have lost their meaning with the coming of ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons ...