If, however, a conventionally armed nation is doomed to fail — because it lacks the resources (including the allies) to defend itself — then look for more countries to pursue nuclear weapons.

WASHINGTON – The semi-autonomous agency that oversees U.S. nuclear weapons production and stockpiling dismissed dozens of employees Thursday after the Trump administration denied a request for a ...

A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing countries into a new arms race. Amid reports that both Russia and ...

President Trump said China and Russia should halve their military spending and limit nuclear weapons. You first, China said. By David Pierson Reporting from Hong Kong China said Friday that the ...

Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons. An Energy Department spokesperson disputed the number of personnel affected, telling CNN that ...

WASHINGTON — National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but ...

Some 325 workers have been let go from the department's National Nuclear Security Administration, which manages the U.S. nuclear weapons fleet and works to secure radiological materials around the ...

A Russian drone struck the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in an attack overnight into Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The strike hit the concrete shelter that ...

KYIV, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where Ukraine accused Russia of striking a radiation containment structure on Friday, is a defunct facility in Ukraine which was the ...

“There’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons. We already have so many,” Trump said. “You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over. And here we are ...

8 session of the Supreme People’s Assembly. The assembly also passed a law stipulating the conditions for using nuclear weapons. The United States and South Korea continue to closely monitor ...