HIROSHIMA—A peace symposium here featured talks by hibakusha and emphasized the importance of listening to their experiences, particularly as their numbers dwindle 80 years after the atomic bombings ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 United Nations has established a panel to examine what impact a nuclear war would have. One of the members is a Japanese doctor who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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 ...

Hiding key Iranian nuclear facilities deep under a mountain made them that much harder for U.S. and Israeli weapons to reach. It will also make it more difficult to assess just how successful the ...

She also said the U.S. was closely monitoring Iran’s nuclear program, noting that the country's “enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear ...

U.S. lawmakers consider giving Israel B-2 bombers and bunker buster bombs as Iran could restart uranium enrichment within months despite damage from recent American strikes.

The United Kingdom plans to buy at least a dozen F-35A fighter jets capable of carrying tactical nuclear weapons, in what will be the “biggest strengthening of the UK’s nuclear posture in a ...

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.” ...