For decades, the idea of saving Earth from an incoming asteroid with nuclear weapons lived mostly in popcorn cinema, a ...

The collapse of 1980s treaties shows the limits of arms control.

Letter: Sue Miller suggests that there are diplomatic and practical steps that could make us all much safer ...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Thursday that the risk of nuclear "Armageddon" is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, as Russian officials speak of the possibility of using ...

In the mid-1950s, American defense planners believed nuclear war was not a question of if, but when. Intelligence reports warned of Soviet jet bombers capable of reaching the United States with atomic ...

The ending of the START treaty removes any caps on the world's two largest nuclear powers for the first time in more than 50 years.

There are numerous reasons to oppose nuclear power, and they are the same ones that have existed for decades. Nuclear power ...

Instead of satirising nuclear war – a possible if difficult thing to do – the time has come to satirise the laying off and furlough of those who solemnly monitor and maintain such machinery fit, not ...

Nuclear weapons have made the world safe for hypocrisy and unsafe in every other respect. Astride the nonsense that is nuclear apartheid – the forced separation of the states that are permitted to ...