People who grew up during the Cold War, as I did, internalized this fear as children. We still tell our campfire tales about ...

Gather round everybody, we’re going to do some chanting. And the first one we’re going to do is: ‘We want the nukes out now.’ ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 ...

A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...

A scholar of intelligence and strategy explains why battle damage assessments are so challenging – and why the process has ...

Remote places, such as the Shetland Islands, will be the safest if the bomb drops. Other locations like Cornwall, Inverness, and Aberystwyth could also be safe from the effects of the initial ...

Code-named "Operation Midnight Hammer," the top-secret U.S. precision attack on Iran's nuclear facilities launched overnight ...

The UK is looking into acquiring tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years. It is a sign of a more dangerous world - and one where Britain is more reliant than ever on American military ...

America has retained about 200 examples of its own atomic gravity bomb – the B61-12 – which has a variable yield of anywhere between 0.3 kilotons and 340 kilotons, an upper figure which would ...

Today, the United States maintains only one type of forward deployed non-strategic nuclear weapon, the B-61 gravity bomb—a relic of the Cold War.

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on May 19, 2025, that production of the first B61-13 variant nuclear bomb has been completed at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas. The ...