President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to pressure the West over its military ...

The U.S. is the biggest nuclear power in Europe, but doubts about Washington’s commitment has leaders questioning their ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Experts in Ukraine are divided on the suggestion of making Ukrainian nuclear power plants US property. Even if the plan ...

Short of a large-scale threat to its homeland or the collapse of its military, a nuclear-armed state will likely remain reticent to deploy nuclear weapons against a nonnuclear rival. In these ...

When a routine procedure went wrong in October 1957, a fire broke out at the Windscale nuclear power station in Cumbria, UK.

Ukraine surrendered its Soviet-era nuclear stockpile more than three decades ago and experts have questioned whether Kyiv miscalculated.

For the foreseeable future a conventional approach to defence, perhaps backed by British and French nuclear assets, remains ...

And given that Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly threatened the use of nuclear weapons since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the prospect of Washington abdicating its ...

Since the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has made repeated nuclear threats and deployed ...

The decision to use nuclear weapons “has always been ... The problem with all this is scale. America’s arsenal is large enough, notes Mr Watkins, “that it is plausible that it could employ ...