About 30% of the attempted cuts at the nuclear weapons agency were at the Pantex plant, where workers disassemble and ...

British defence chiefs are at the centre of a ‘cover-up’ row over secretly exempting US troops from telling local authorities they are storing nuclear weapons. A declassified document proves ...

In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative to create a space-based defense against ballistic nuclear missiles. The system was derisively nicknamed “Star ...

Government officials are growing more concerned that the US president will strike a deal with Iran without considering ...

“Trump wants a new deal: End Iran’s regional influence, dismantle its nuclear program and halt its missile work. These are unacceptable to Tehran,” one senior Iranian official told Reuter ...

While the bulk of the world’s nuclear weapons are US or Russian-owned, France has some 290 nuclear warheads, the UK 225 of the US-designed Trident missiles. Recent weeks saw a flurry of comments ...

Many foreign policy experts warn that if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it would be broadly destabilizing for the Middle East and nearby regions. A first-order concern is that Iran’s ...

“Third-party, fire and theft” missile defence is acceptable, right up until casualties are suffered. But as the spectre of nuclear stand-offs looms, there is a further issue to ...

In both countries, a total of 13,000 nuclear devices are deployed. Among these, about 4,400 sit within missiles on high-level alert, just minutes away from launch. The reason for the high alert is ...

as justification for expanding its United Nations-sanctioned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North ...