"Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

Scientists and others are calling on civil society to heed growing nuclear dangers and revive the anti-nuclear movement.

On August 6, 1945, the US launched the world's first nuclear attack, dropping an atomic bomb on Japan's Hiroshima, and ...

We’ve grown used to blood-curdling nuclear threats from Russia’s leadership – but this time, Donald Trump has very publicly ...

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late ...

The idea that there can be a winner in a nuclear exchange rests on several assumptions: that the conflict can be contained, ...

While many nations possess the capability to launch CBRN attacks, few are adequately prepared or capable of defending ...

During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union each had tens of thousands of nuclear warheads aimed at each other’s major cities and military installations.

Erath expects Putin to "keep going back" to the nuclear weapon threat because Russia doesn't have many other effective tools. However, it's a strategy that comes with a risk.

The likelihood of a nuclear war "goes up a little bit every year," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday, warning that the amount of conflicts now raging across the globe coupled with ...

Nation & World As risk of nuclear war grows, study warns even a limited exchange would doom billions Aug. 15, 2022 at 11:43 am Updated Aug. 15, 2022 at 12:15 pm ...

As escalating tensions among the United States, Russia and China revive old fears of nuclear war, some researchers are warning that even a limited-scale exchange between such nations as India and ...