Japan’s long-standing status as a non-nuclear power is under fresh scrutiny after a report argued that the country could ...

Comment / The president wants to resume nuclear testing. Is he a warmonger or just an idiot? Edward Markey It would be a ...

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 ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

With or without Iran, the number of nuclear states could double, raising the risk of catastrophe. June 25, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now For 80 years, the United States has invested enormous effort in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As the Kremlin escalates missile blitzes on Ukraine, and threatens to target its Western backers with plutonium bombs, some ...

With doomsday nuclear weapons the last remnant of Russia's superpower status, President Vladimir Putin is stepping up threats to use them against Western powers aiding Ukraine. (Photo by Alexander ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

Dr. Tanaka is a chair of Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki ...