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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The world’s nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, a think tank has said. A new arms race is emerging after decades of reductions in the ...
The Kremlin’s constant nuclear boasts may have finally struck a chord in the White House, with President Donald Trump ordering the resumption of US nuclear weapons tests. “Because of other countries ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 United States military has moved nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time in close to two decades, new analysis indicates. Open-source analysts identified an aircraft taking off from the ...
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 ...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the weapons testing President Trump ordered last week will not include nuclear explosions. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system ...