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Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of ...

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 ...

New reactors use novel materials and compact designs to make nuclear power safer and cheaper. Nuclear power has been a ...

It would take about 30 minutes for a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to travel from Russia to the United States. If launched from a submarine, it could arrive even faster than ...

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander ...

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 ...

Yet Trump has long approached nuclear weapons with a combination of morbid fascination and bombastic threats. In August, he announced he was ordering two nuclear submarines to be strategically ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, policymakers and strategists have tried to prevent a country from deploying nuclear weapons by mistake. But the potential for accidents remains as high as it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear ...

“Russia’s testing, and China’s testing, but they don’t talk about it,” was President Donald Trump’s bold claim to CBS News about the U.S. adversaries’ nuclear weapons. China rejected this, but its ...

China’s Foreign Ministry has reiterated that the country remains committed to a self-defense-oriented nuclear policy, as Beijing certified two new nuclear test monitoring stations. Robert Floyd, ...