For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles wasn’t a complex, unbreakable string of digits.

The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon’s first weapons test since President Donald Trump ...

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, nuclear arsenals are growing, and the weapons themselves are becoming more ...

Nuclear Restoration Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, operating on behalf of the United Kingdom's government. The company has been overseeing the ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...