It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails ...

Iran’s supreme leader must revoke a fatwa banning the development of nuclear weapons if the regime is to survive, his top military commanders have said. In an extraordinary intervention by ...

Failing to achieve market share for America’s nuclear power politics likely will decrease its influence over the evolving ...

SEOUL, Feb 8 (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday its nuclear weapons are not meant for negotiations but are intended for combat use against enemies that threaten its people and world peace ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested Tuesday that Ukraine should be given nuclear weapons once the hot phase of the war with Russia is over. This could deter Russia from invading Ukraine ...

The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has ...

Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

There were no calamitous new developments last year with respect to nuclear weapons—but this is hardly good news. Longstanding concerns about nuclear weapons—involving the modernization and expansion ...

said the U.S. cannot build more nuclear weapons than Russia and China (and its "gigantic economy") in the decades to come, despite an ongoing $1.7 trillion nuclear arsenal modernization plan.

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

Hartung recently wrote. “Buying new weapons to boost the Pentagon’s ability to destroy the world is decidedly not a good thing.” Already that year, Trump had amped up his nuclear weapons spending by ...