Key Points and Summary – Nuclear war remains unlikely, but not impossible—and five regions stand out as potential flashpoints ...

From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on, technological ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be ...

The most charitable reading is that the announcement is itself a form of deterrence: neither China nor Russia have conducted ...

It’s clear and straightforward: the United States must avoid nuclear war or all other national obligations will become moot. It follows that all available fiscal and intellectual resources should be ...

As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.