The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

After the US and Soviet Union became capable of Mutually Assured Destruction, safeguards were put in place to prevent World ...

EXCLUSIVE: A new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has highlighted the speed at which ...

Deadlier weapons, more nations, autocrats in charge, disinformation and collapsing arms control — the risk of nuclear ...

And if Cold War history is any guide ... After all, should Moscow and Washington prove unable to agree on a successor to New START and begin expanding their arsenals, any trilateral nuclear ...

The looming expiration of the New START Treaty, the only remaining bilateral nuclear arms control agreement between the United States and Russia, has focused national security experts on what comes ...

Far from the start of a new Cold War, President Trump and other leaders see this moment as more akin to the end of the original Cold War, when U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier ...

The Pahalgam terror attack has once again brought India and Pakistan to the brink of armed conflict if not war. India had earlier launched surgical strikes on terror ...

ACTON: Sure. So I think it may be helpful to start historically and think about how we got here. We had an arms race during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Each side ...