"China maintains a large and growing arsenal of nuclear, maritime, conventional long-range strike, cyber and space ...

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

China urged the United States to fulfil its nuclear disarmament responsibilities after a draft Pentagon report said China was ...

The U.S. government has warned that China’s accelerating buildup of nuclear weapons has reached a level that poses a direct ...

Troops carried out multiple mock hydrogen bomb drills in the early 1970s, potentially for use against the Soviet Union or ...

The continued extension of the Minuteman III system calls for a rethinking of the venerable US strategic nuclear triad. The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has noted that the original plan ...

U.S. Strategic Command has begun this year’s edition of the annual nuclear command & control exercise known as Global Thunder. As we mentioned in last month’s article on what is believed to have been ...

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 ...

The U.S. successfully tested a tactical thermonuclear gravity bomb using inert warheads in August, according to a research and development arm of the Department of Energy's (DoE) National Nuclear ...

China is estimated to have more than 600 nuclear warheads, a figure the U.S. predicts will exceed 1,000 by the end of the decade.

The Museum of Strategic Missile Forces tells the story of how Ukraine dismantled its nuclear weapons arsenal after ...

The country’s production of nuclear warheads has slowed, but its missiles may be poised to strike back fast in case of an ...