Ever wondered how many nuclear weapons the US actually has? As of 2022, the US Department of Defense has a stockpile of both deployed and stored nuclear warheads. There are 1,744 deployed nuclear ...

Price of US nuclear weapons jumps 25% to nearly $1 trillion by 2034, budget office says The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's estimate does not include recently discovered cost overruns ...

In contrast, the seven other nations with nuclear weapons possess a dramatically reduced number of weapons, ranging in the hundreds to a few dozen, while the U.S. and Russia each possess caches ...

Traditionally, NATO ’ s “ nuclear triad” referred to the ability to deliver nuclear weapons by land, sea, and air. Today, a new triad is needed to match modern threats: 1.

The Congressional Budget Office, CBO, this week calculated the “modernization” cost of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will be at least $1 trillion annually over the next ten years. Cost overruns for ...

As of 2025, the U.S. uses two types of long-range nuclear missiles in the form of the aforementioned Minuteman III ICBMs, as well as the Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM).

Once established, this conventional triad could prevent the destabilizing scenario in which a conventional first strike could lead to a nuclear confrontation. COLLISION COURSE. China’s rapidly ...

A new study into the legacy of the US nuclear weapons tests in the Marshall Islands has shown the impacts were significantly greater than has previously been acknowledged. The research, which was ...

As NATO leaders prepare for their upcoming summit June 24-25 in The Hague, they should consider establishing a NATO Nuclear Innovation Council under the umbrella of a new Strategic Nuclear ...

The decision means that Britain’s air force will have a nuclear role for the first time since the end of the Cold War. By Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle Steven Erlanger reported from The ...