A Norwegian rocket launched on 25 January 1995 in order to study the Northern Lights, was mistaken by Russia for an incoming ...

A Princeton University simulation shows how a single low-yield nuclear weapon could rapidly spiral into a full-scale ...

“At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.” That is the chilling opening line of Kathryn ...

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

As a peace and disarmament activist for over four decades, I was conflicted about whether to see “A House of Dynamite,” director Katherine Bigelow’s and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim’s new fictional ...