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

Nuclear weapons represent the pinnacle of military danger, capable of instantly wiping out millions and reducing cities to dust. While the term "atomic bomb" often refers to a basic fission device, ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons bans nuclear arms and mandates their destruction, but none of the nine ...

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 ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...