The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is celebrating “a significant milestone,” announcing that it completed a ...

During the Cold War, the biggest fear for powerful nations was not only losing a nuclear war, but also losing the ability to ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...

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This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, remains a pivotal and controversial event in modern history. Beyond its immediate impact on World War II, it ushered in the nuclear age, forever ...

Where did the world’s most devastating weapon come from? In a four-part series, we go behind the scenes at America’s nuclear laboratories to understand how a scientific-mystery story about the ...

A 110-degree day in Las Vegas, a city dedicated to entertainment and capitalism, seems a strange place to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Yet Las Vegas has its ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume a nuclear testing program that was shuttered during the George HW Bush administration would require spending astronomical amounts of money ...

Donald Trump plans to turn the UK into a “potential nuclear launchpad” and put American nuclear missiles on British soil for the first time since 2008, said the Daily Mail. The return of US nukes to ...