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

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

Three minutes, a football and a biscuit. These are all a president of the United States needs to start nuclear war. During a ...

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

A secret American programme put 10m Western books and magazines in the hands of intellectuals and professionals in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for 37 years ...

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

This new economic thinking represents a break from what we’ve come to expect from the American right. Its proponents argue ...

The number of nuclear warheads in the world, on the decline since the Cold War, is forecast to start rising again in coming years.

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 ...

Key NATO members are upping their defense posture in response to threats from Russia. Experts say the Trump administration's ...

While Josef Stalin celebrated victory against an invader, Vladimir Putin seeks to justify Russians invading a neighbor. Putin insists that Russia is fighting NATO aggression in Ukraine and, like the ...