At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...

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The New START treaty has expired. For 15 years, the treaty served as an agreement between the United States and Russia to ...

For the first time in over 50 years, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, the US and Russia.

Artists Against the Bomb walking exhibition, held during Nuclear Ban Week, New York City, March 1, 2025. The author says the best way to stop the threat of another nuclear arms race is to turn to the ...

Nuclear weapons are often discussed in abstractions, as if they were just another line item in a defense budget or a ...

Ending of New Start treaty will remove mutual limits on the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals ...

Thankfully, no party has used nuclear weapons in war since 1945. Treaties limiting nuclear tests and weapon inventories during the Cold War highlighted the pragmatism of world leaders. As memories ...

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 ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...