Nuclear waste is largely misunderstood, thanks to the Cold War and war movies. However, even if nuclear energy is safer than ...

To date, US nuclear doctrine has worked; no one has launched a nuclear attack on the United States, or anyone else, since the end of World War II. Nuclear war is one of the world’s most pressing ...

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander ...

Yet Trump has long approached nuclear weapons with a combination of morbid fascination and bombastic threats. In August, he announced he was ordering two nuclear submarines to be strategically ...

“Russia’s testing, and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it,” was President Donald Trump’s bold claim to CBS News about the U.S. adversaries’ nuclear weapons. China rejected this, but its ...

U.S. strategic thinking in the Cold War was dominated at various points by fears of adversarial collusion, the erosion of U.S. alliances, and the collapse of U.S. global leadership. Today, all three ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, policymakers and strategists have tried to prevent a country from deploying nuclear weapons by mistake. But the potential for accidents remains as high as it was ...

Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, A House of Dynamite, presents a compelling, Rashomon-style dissection of a moment of crisis from three different perspectives. Other nuclear wonks have praised the film for ...

The United States needs a nuclear posture that can credibly deter limited, non-strategic nuclear war without either forcing it to escalate to central, strategic war or forcing it to lose an ongoing ...

Among the eye-opening details of President Trump’s plans for an eponymous class of giant warships is one that appears to contravene an earlier policy position: these “battleships” are to be armed with ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...