After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...

The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a ...

This Issue Brief presents the findings of the artificial intelligence (AI) simulations conducted after The Heritage Foundation’s October 2025 tabletop exercise (TTX) on U.S.–China theater nuclear ...

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of treaties to keep the arms race from spiralling out of ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of its famous Doomsday Clock will move closer to midnight. It feels like a ...

Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small weapons system. It could fly stealthily into enemy territory, not being mistaken for a bomber or any kind of missile. And then it could detonate a nuclear weapon ...

The extraction of a sovereign leader by U.S. special forces confirms Kim Jong Un’s deepest fear. That increases the risk of a miscalculation that could trigger nuclear war. The United States’ ...

Thanks to Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. for raising the “not serious” flag on Kathryn Bigelow’s soap-opera movie, “A House of Dynamite.” Col. José M. López ably details how the film misunderstands the ...

Russia's Oreshnik missile system is seen during a training in an undisclosed location in Belarus. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP) The ministry released a video showing combat vehicles ...

Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a process to respond when it is under nuclear attack, but only ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...