During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

Russia's Project 09851 submarine Khabarovsk, designed to deploy the Poseidon nuclear torpedo, may begin sea trials in 2026.

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume a nuclear testing program that was shuttered during the George HW Bush administration would require spending astronomical amounts of money ...

During the Cold War, the US Air Force studied a classified lenticular spacecraft designed to orbit Earth and deliver nuclear ...

Japan doesn’t seem likely to develop nuclear weapons in the short-term. However, the tensions that triggered this episode are ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement that the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons has alarmed some nuclear-arms experts. It shouldn’t. President Trump had already announced earlier ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

The mystique of nuclear-powered submarines has been captured by at least half a dozen popular Hollywood films. Some have centered on the drama of undersea warfare and the risk of global nuclear ...

President Donald Trump said this week that he wants the Defense Department to begin testing nuclear weapons "immediately," but experts say that's wishful thinking. The U.S. has only one location where ...

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

Regional threats and doubts about the reliability of extended deterrence are pushing technically capable non-nuclear states ...