Japan doesn’t seem likely to develop nuclear weapons in the short-term. However, the tensions that triggered this episode are ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

The only four categories of weapons expressly outlawed by majority of EU states are personnel mines, cluster munitions, ...

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Pentagon realized that deploying megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe the ...

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, nuclear arsenals are growing, and the weapons themselves are becoming more ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The United States and South Korea face increasingly dangerous threats in China ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

The Royal Air Force is buying 12 F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons. The British military is expanding its nuclear strike capabilities by purchasing F-35 ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...