Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe was no longer realistic, leaving much of America’s nuclear arsenal ...

Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with ...

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY that dives into the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg ...

For now, the current ICBMs, called Minuteman IIIs, sit buried inside hardened silos at several-mile intervals across the ...

Naive, self-sabotaging and riddled with Moscow’s agents, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons and an arms industry that produced a third of the Soviet Union’s supply, trusted the West and the Kremlin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump said on Thursday that he's ordering the US to restart nuclear weapons tests. That would be the first time the US has ...

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement that the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons has alarmed some nuclear-arms experts. It shouldn’t. President Trump had already announced earlier ...

The Pentagon has released its 2026 Defense Strategy amid sharply rising tensions between the United States and Iran, warning ...