Over a million tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) dating back to World Wars I and II rest beneath the surface. From sea mines ...

These vessels are extremely complicated, said Torpedoman’s Mate Chief (TMC), Chief Petty Officer of Torpedo Division on the USS Pasadena, Craig Dunlap. “Our job as torpedo men, we’re ...

Russia’s expansion of its nuclear forces through new weapons is a “significant threat” to Europe, and an arms race over ...

Take a look at these stranger-than-fiction instances of lost nuclear missiles and the stories of how they fell off the ...

Mare Island was one of only two public shipyards in America that built nuclear submarines during the Cold War. It hosted an “ocean-and-engineering program” that actually was a highly classified ...

If the submarine is the shark of the world's navies, the torpedo is its teeth. Though a modern sub can carry an array of weapons up to and including nuclear weapons capable of obliterating a city ...

Russia’s Poseidon, also known by its NATO designation Kanyon and formerly referred to as Status-6, is a nuclear torpedo that has redefined the concept of strategic weaponry. Developed by the ...

The threat of nuclear war has dangled over humankind for much too long. We have survived so far through luck and brinkmanship. But the old, limited safeguards that kept the Cold War cold are long ...

Analysts said the weapon's operational concept was similar to Russia's Poseidon nuclear torpedoes, a new category of retaliatory weapon meant to create destructive, radioactive blasts in coastal ...