SLBMs can be launched from underwater nearly anywhere in the world—and are incredibly difficult to intercept, making them ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

The U.S. is building 12 Columbia-class submarines armed with ballistic missiles to serve as its sea-based nuclear deterrent ...

Vladimir Putin is quietly amassing an arsenal within Russia's military machine, designed not to win a war in Europe, but 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 ...

Yaroslav Trofimov of The Wall Street Journal explains why he thinks that the U.S., Russia, and China have entered a new nuclear race.

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

Iran’s foreign minister said his country would halt plans for a reinstatement of nuclear inspections at a time of heightened ...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he had ordered the Pentagon to start nuclear weapons testing "on an equal basis" to China and Russia -- an announcement made just minutes before he held a ...

In the 80 years since World War II, which ended with the use of two atomic bombs, the world has maintained a tenuous relationship with nuclear weapons. Philip Potter, professor of public policy at the ...

The agency responsible for designing, building, maintaining and securing U.S. nuclear weapons is facing staff furloughs and its contractors will soon experience mass layoffs due to the federal ...

Islamabad reported in its April submission to the UN that the implementation of AI in the nuclear command, control, and ...