You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new ...

It’s a pivotal moment for nuclear weapons. Tensions between the United States and Russia, the two major nuclear powers, are high. Longstanding nuclear pacts have crumbled. China, which trails ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over. Treaties are collapsing, some nuclear powers ...

Iran’s supreme leader must revoke a fatwa banning the development of nuclear weapons if the regime is to survive, his top military commanders have said. In an extraordinary intervention by ...

Since mid-2019, Iran has significantly shortened its “breakout time”—the amount of time needed to produce enough weapons-grade highly enriched uranium (HEU) to build a nuclear weapon to mere days. How ...

Upgraded gravity bombs are now stationed at military bases in Europe, the head of the U.S.'s nuclear military science agency has said, after it completed an overhaul of the B61-12 nuclear bomb.

but has said little about his experience in the management of atomic weapons. By William J. Broad William J. Broad reported on the drive to resume nuclear testing in July. President-elect Donald J.

In a 2024 survey of 2,280 Iranian citizens, more than 69% of respondents expressed support for Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. Imposing further sanctions is likely to deepen Iran’s ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

This is dangerous disinformation in a long line of dangerous disinformation. After the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan, the director of the Manhattan Project, Gen. Leslie R. Groves, debunked ...

A plane crash released two nuclear bombs over North Carolina in 1961, historians said. Screengrab from the NC Department of Natural & Cultural Resources on Facebook Two nuclear bombs fell from the ...