In the minutes after a launch detection or nuclear detonation, would America’s nuclear command, control, and communications system enable the president to make a timely and accurate decision to ...

The nuclear 'Dead Hand' stalemate, combined with psychological warfare and economic interests, has created a trap of an unending loop, or Maze. It has now become hard to predict how the Russia ...

This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than ...

In the latter decades of the Cold War, Soviet leaders worried that their ability to counter an American nuclear strike on Moscow could be compromised, so they developed a “dead hand” program.

The 900 nuclear missiles onboard U.S. submarines will meanwhile deter the feared nuclear first strike the obsolescent land missiles were meant to discourage at the dawn of the cold war.

As many as 5 billion people worldwide would die from famine and hunger after a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia, a new study says. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

Reading “Nuclear War: A Scenario” by reporter and historian Annie Jacobsen will take you much longer than the 30 or so minutes — 1,800 seconds — that would elapse between the launch of a ...

As was the case during the Cold War that dominated nearly half of the 20th century, the dispute between the U.S. and Russia runs far deeper than Ukraine, and involved rival worldviews clashing in ...

The nuclear ‘Dead Hand’ stalemate, combined with psychological warfare and economic interests, has created a trap of an unending loop, or Maze. It has now become hard to predict how the Russia ...