SLBMs can be launched from underwater nearly anywhere in the world—and are incredibly difficult to intercept, making them ideal second-strike nuclear weapons.

Vladimir Putin is quietly amassing an arsenal within Russia's military machine, designed not to win a war in Europe, but to obliterate entire nations with the push of a button ...

Hypersonic weapons are in the spotlight. Here’s how they work, why they matter, and what current programs in Russia, China, ...

(CNN) — As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end of World War II, the planet is closer to seeing them used again ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

The geopolitical environment that once helped manage nuclear risks has eroded.

In the 80 years since World War II, which ended with the use of two atomic bombs, the world has maintained a tenuous relationship with nuclear weapons. Philip Potter, professor of public policy at the ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. Washington faces a choice: reduce the size of its nuclear force or expand and ...

The Brahmastra is often described as a divine weapon, yet many ancient texts hint at a power comparable to or even greater ...

The agency responsible for designing, building, maintaining and securing U.S. nuclear weapons is facing staff furloughs and its contractors will soon experience mass layoffs due to the federal ...