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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 1990s-era program to repurpose uranium from nuclear warheads could provide a solution to the impasse over Iran’s nuclear ...

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.

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 ...

The mood was tense in the White House Cabinet room on that summer day, almost exactly 31 years ago. President Bill Clinton and his National Security Council were about to be briefed by Defense ...

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 ...