The test was to ensure the “nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure, reliable, and effective in deterring 21st-century threats ...

The United States spends vastly more on its military than any of its enemies, but that has not made us secure from the most destructive weapons on the planet: nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. In fact ...

Details of the missile explosion weren’t immediately known ... militaries said last week that North Korea had tested an ICBM system in two recent launches, referring to the developmental ...

Both Dario Amodei’s essay and another one by Leopold Aschenbrenner—called “Situational Awareness”—suggest that as this AI explosion unfolds and generates ... decades ago—running Apollo, the ICBM ...

It has only 44 anti-ballistic missiles to shoot down an ICBM. In all war games ... Today’s thermonuclear weapons have megatons of explosive capacity, each one’s explosion equivalent to 1,500 or even 3 ...

China’s nuclear arsenal has reached a capacity of nearly 600 warheads, while in September 2024, China tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (DF31AG ... which could lead to a nuclear explosion.

Arguably Right: The test explosion of an American nuclear ... while the Americans defended an ICBM site. It was further agreed there would be no new land-based ICBMs beyond agreed numbers and no new ...