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

Ending the Ukraine War will ultimately require some US-Russia nuclear arms agreement. As the United States, Russia, Ukraine, ...

Key Points and Summary: While Russia possesses the world's largest arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and maintains an intentionally ambiguous doctrine, the actual use of these weapons in the Ukraine ...

With nuclear brinksmanship so commonplace, it’s easy to feel like the world could easily spiral into a nuclear war. Even some proponents of the “nuclear taboo”—the moral opprobrium against nuclear ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it. June 18, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now Three minutes, a football and a biscuit ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

In November, the General Assembly’s First Committee, adopted a resolution that looks at the risks of integrating AI into nuclear weapons.

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

The Kremlin warned of escalating nuclear tensions and said Russia was taking action to protect its security in response. Newsweek reached out to the Department of Defense for comment via email.

There are no small nuclear wars, given the catastrophic global effects of even a "limited" initial exchange and the likelihood of runaway retaliation, so every nuclear power on Earth—there are ...

Too many are copacetic about nuclear weapons. That nukes have not been used since Nagasaki leads them to conclude their use is so insane they will not be used, so everything is fine. The reality is ...