North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for "indefinitely" strengthening his regime's nuclear weapons capacity, state media ...

In the popular imagination, nuclear power plants conjure fears of catastrophic explosions and radiation leaks, such as the Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986. In reality, hundreds of reactors ...

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

The administration of new US president Donald Trump is reportedly considering various options to prevent Iran from being able ...

Vladimir Solovyov, a voice of Russian state media, makes a startling prediction about nuclear weapons that could alter the ...

NHK has learned that Japan's government and ruling coalition are considering sending Diet members to a UN nuclear weapons ban treaty conference without observer status.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the United States, China and Russia have the prime responsibility to pull the world ...

Longstanding concerns about nuclear weapons—involving the modernization and expansion of arsenals in all nuclear weapons countries, the build-up of new ... The Bulletin is an independent, nonprofit ...

Analysts say that apart from the Russian threat, China is another major reason behind the US decision to deploy its nuclear weapons in Europe ... open threats to NATO countries which share borders ...

RUSSIA must get ready for World War Three and must not be “shy” to fight the West, Vladimir Putin’s chief crony has warned.

After several months of growing tensions with Israel and the US, and repeated rumours of an imminent military strike ...

Every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster, Atomic Bulletin of Scientists warns.