As the video illustrates, it doesn’t matter much who starts the war: when one side launches nuclear missiles, the other side detects them and fires back before impact. Ballistic missiles from U.S.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), part of the US Department of Energy, has finished the last production unit of the W88 Alteration 370 program, a significant step in updating an ...

The last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States expires Thursday, ushering in an era without caps set by the world’s largest nuclear powers. Without the New START ...

Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles parade through Red Square in Moscow as the Kremlin sabotages the last nuclear arms treaty with the U.S., potentially speeding up a new atomic arms race.

China is rapidly overhauling a network of secret facilities used to manufacture warhead components as it expands its nuclear stockpile faster than any other country, according to an analysis of ...

As Russia threatens atomic attacks on Ukraine and its Western allies, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, space powers across Europe are racing to defend against nuclear strikes in orbit.

If the US abandons New START, say goodbye to that comfortable feeling we once enjoyed of relative freedom from an imminent nuclear holocaust. A group of people protest against the Trump administration ...

LONDON/WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - The United States and Russia could embark on an unrestrained nuclear arms race for the first time since the Cold War, unless they reach an eleventh-hour deal ...