In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed an agreement known as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which banned missiles with ranges ...

Just one nuclear arms pact between Moscow and Washington is still standing: New START, which experts say is on the ropes and ...

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

Vladimir Putin is feared to be preparing new tests of his jinxed 'Flying Chernobyl' missile. The Burevestnik is supposedly ...

"Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

American nuclear forces consist of ballistic missile submarines, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bomber ...

The Navy is extending the timeframe for drug testing in the Nuclear Weapons community, according to a late July Navy policy ...

By instituting a two-person rule for US nuclear weapons use, Donald Trump will have single-handedly reduced the danger of ...

The summer of 1945 saw three nuclear explosions that ushered in a new era of experimentation, development — and fear when it comes to the potential for such a powerful weapon. Native people are among ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world's first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation.

In 1963 the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The treaty ...