For decades, the idea of saving Earth from an incoming asteroid with nuclear weapons lived mostly in popcorn cinema, a fantasy of oil drillers and last‑minute heroics. Now a new generation of physics ...

The expiration of the New START treaty last week -- long the framework limiting both nations to 1,550 warheads in 700 launchers -- has renewed fears of an emerging nuclear arms race.

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 a badly fractured world with ongoing kinetic conflicts , frequent terrorism driven strikes, unimaginable geopolitical churning and even economics b.

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

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 ...