After warning U.S. officials of its intention to launch, Russia lobbed a mysterious new ballistic missile—initially mistaken ...

Vladimir Putin is risking a ‘coup’ among Russia’s top brass with his continuous nuclear threats to the West. For months, Ukraine has been hoping to launch airstrikes into Russian sovereign ...

(Such a scenario has almost come to pass on four occasions—see False Alarms on the Nuclear Front.) Compounding the problem of the launch-on-warning strategy is the time that each side has to ...

As the world became more dangerous in 2024, the use of its most dangerous weapons has become more likely. More From Our ...

The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has ...

Andrey Gurulev, a pro-Putin MP and retired Lieutenant General, and Vladimir Solovyov spoke on state TV to call for a nuclear attack on London, or a massive atomic bomb test on the remote Arctic ...

Iran accused both Israel and the US of plotting to launch military attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, insisting that such ...