A massive American web of orbiting missile interceptors could in theory protect the U.S. from an all-out Russian nuclear ...

Humanity has grown closer to global disaster in the past year, with the Doomsday Clock moving to 89 seconds to midnight.

Pyongyang's expanding ICBM fleet now includes missiles believed to be capable of striking North American targets.

You may think we have too many nuclear weapons. Or you may think we don’t have enough. One thing you most certainly do not think, however, is that we should arbitrarily fire the people who keep these ...

The total area burned in the recent Los Angeles fires is comparable to that of the primary destruction zone of a strategic ...

The specter of nuclear war cast a long shadow over the 20th century, serving as a reminder of humanity's capacity for ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed ...

A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing countries into a new arms race. Amid reports that both Russia and ...

Iran is "not seeking nuclear weapons," President Masoud Pezeshkian claimed on February 6. Ha! No one believed him, because the UN says Iran is within weeks of producing enough enriched uranium for ...

A film that shocked a generation is available to watch on BBC iPlayer. Threads was first aired on BBC2 in 1984 and again in ...