Using data from Scientific American's previous maps of a nuclear attack in the US, Newsweek has created a map which looks at radiation exposure risk from a nuclear blast, in turn revealing the safest, ...

Deep in the isolated regions of North Dakota, the U.S. Air Force stands guard over America’s most formidable weapon - the Minuteman III ICBM. This documentary takes you inside the classified world of ...

Susan D’Agostino Way out in the Kansas prairie, 140 feet below ground, a concrete-lined relic of Cold War annihilation has received a literal — and metaphorical — coat of “fresh paint throughout.” ...

Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. director of national intelligence, admittedly struck the wrong note in a melodramatic video she put out after visiting Hiroshima, which was destroyed by an atomic bomb 80 years ...

NIKITA LALWANI is a Nonresident Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She served as Director for ...

Shutterstock The South Dakota Nuclear Screwdriver Mishap The Minuteman Missile National Historic Site in South Dakota offers ...

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial ...

For decades, the balance of terror rested on a simple formula: Mutually Assured Destruction between Washington and Moscow.

American nuclear forces consist of ballistic missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bomber ...

You may hear that President Donald Trump’s big beautiful bill boosts the U.S. Defense Department budget by tens of billions of dollars. Americans certainly support a strong military to protect us ...

Ukraine obtains classified data on Russia's newest nuclear submarine, intelligence claims * 'Productive' phone call with ...

China has publicly confirmed the active deployment of one of its Type 094 Jin-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines ...