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 ...

Japan is the one place in the world that has felt, and personally mourned, the staggering damage of nuclear warfare. The ...

Nuclear war so devastating survivors will envy the dead: As newly declassified documents reveal what Armageddon would look like - how a lightning attack from North Korea would leave a US President ...

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.

Nuclear threats have reemerged on the world stage. Frequently, Vladimir Putin warns the West that Russia is ready for nuclear war. “Weapons exits in order to use them,” Putin says. North Korea ...

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 ...