Yet until the moment he resigned, nuclear “command and control”—the complex but delicate system that allows a president to launch weapons that could wipe out cities and kill billions of ...

Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, only a few countries have tested nuclear weapons, according to the Arms Control Association: The United States last in 1992, China and France last in 1996 ...

Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine had Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on their territory but handed them over to Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin said Belarusian President ...

In this article, we will be looking at 10 countries with most nuclear weapons in the world. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of the global defense market, you can go directly to 5 ...

In 1968, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was negotiated, which recognized that five states already had nuclear weapons, but secured pledges from others not to develop them.

Another benchmark in the history of nuclear weapons, arms control and the Cold War occurred in 1972, when the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) led to treaties between the U.S. and the Soviet ...

The Taliban is actively exploring ways in which it can obtain a tactical nuclear weapon as it seeks to cement its grip on power in Afghanistan, the country’s former spy chief has claimed. Rahmatullah ...

Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels, a confidential report by the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Saturday. In a separate report, the ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of New Mexico. Today, 80 years later, the bomb still dominates our lives—we ...

Iran maintains its nuclear program is peaceful. An earlier intelligence report, compiled in November under then-President Joe Biden, a Democrat, also said Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon.” ...

The F35-A aircraft will be deployed as part of NATO’s nuclear mission, the government said, using weapons over which the United States retains ultimate control.