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

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.

A new book outlines how nuclear war would unfold, noting that humanity’s survival depends on statesmanship and luck — as much the latter as the former.

The clips then attempt to depict Iran’s retaliation against Israel’s attacks as triumphant, showing Iranian missiles decimate the Jewish state.

5:00 p.m. EDT Iran U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the U.N. Security Council that 78 people are dead and 320 are injured, acknowledging the deaths of military officials and nuclear scientists ...

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.

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.

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it.

Ballistic missile launches are not uncommon. Nuclear-armed nations inform one another of ballistic missile tests, via diplomatic back channels, as no one wants to start a nuclear war by accident.