"There’s no reason for us to be building brand new nuclear weapons, we already have so many," Trump said Thursday at the White House. "You could destroy the world 50 times over, 100 times over.

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 ...

Worried over the possible spread of nuclear weapons, the nuclear scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab hired three young physicists to see if they could design and test their own nuclear ...

Is this the future? So-called “mini nukes” powering the future of AI? I’ve spent more than 25 years as a director of now connected major energy utilities, including Nicor Gas, which merged ...

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 ...

American nuclear weapons, specifically the atomic bomb, brought World War II to a close. They then averted a hot war with the Soviet Union and bolstered decades of global stability. The decisive ...

It is not the only nuclear weapon the U.S. has misplaced. Not all Broken Arrow incidents involve lost nuclear weapons — for instance, several of the incidents happened in silos holding ...

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 ...

Iran is developing nuclear weapons with a range that can hit Europe using a North Korean design handed to Tehran. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which in the past has revealed ...

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 ...