This August marks 80 years since the United States detonated two atomic weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. This gets a lot of attention in history books and the media, as it marks the end of ...

Nine countries currently either say they have nuclear weapons or are believed to possess them. The first to have nuclear arms were the five original nuclear weapons states — the United States, Russia, ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

When Donald Trump ordered testing of nuclear weapons to resume – for the first time in 33 years – he claimed that the US possesses more nukes than any other country. In fact, it is how the US ...

Introduction -- Building the bomb -- Controlling the bomb -- Racing with the bomb -- Why states want nuclear weapons--and why they don't -- Today's nuclear world -- The new U.S. policy -- The good ...

For many younger Americans, this is the first U.S. war in the Middle East. Here’s how we got here. Why did President Donald Trump launch Operation Epic Fury? He’s provided a stream of reasons: forcing ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, triggering uncertainty over the decades-old U.S.

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 ...

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board came to the defense of President Donald Trump’s use of force against Iran, focusing specifically on the nuclear issue. The editorial essentially ...