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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A ghost of the Cold War is rising between the world’s superpowers, just in time for Halloween. In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin bragging about his country testing both a nuclear-powered ...

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 ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

President Trump and one of his top cabinet officials are sending mixed messages on how the U.S. government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world. By David E. Sanger and Zolan ...

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 ...

Two former Biden administration defense officials warn of a “Category 5 hurricane of nuclear threats” rapidly approaching. Their solution? Build more nuclear weapons. The officials, Vipin Narang and ...

“A HOUSE of Dynamite”, Kathryn Bigelow’s film about a nuclear strike on America, explores the terror and uncertainty of a nuclear crisis. An intercontinental ...

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US President Donald Trump has said that the country will resume nuclear weapons testing after a decades-long ban. But researchers speaking to New Scientist say there is no scientific need for such ...