The story is different with regard to its conventional arsenal. North Korea kick-started an ambitious modernisation programme ...

Key Points and Summary - The iconic Iowa-class battleships came closer to being nuclear-armed platforms than many realize. During the Cold War, the US Navy developed the Mk-23 "Katie," a 16-inch ...

WOODVILLE, Ohio — The Northwest Ohio Bomb Squad was called out to Woodville on Monday after a person found what appeared to be a military artillery shell while cleaning out a family member's residence ...

SALT LAKE CITY — An artillery shell discovered underground at a Salt Lake City rail yard prompted a bomb squad response Tuesday afternoon. The Utah National Guard said an excavator working at the Salt ...

With or without Iran, the number of nuclear states could double, raising the risk of catastrophe. June 25, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now For 80 years, the United States has invested enormous effort in ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

President Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992. He made the announcement just before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 1974, Richard Nixon was under great strain and drinking too much. During a White House ...

President Trump and one of his top cabinet officials are sending mixed messages on how the U.S. government is handling the most destructive weapons in the world. By David E. Sanger and Zolan ...

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 ...