Key Points and Summary: While Russia possesses the world's largest arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons and maintains an intentionally ambiguous doctrine, the actual use of these weapons in the Ukraine ...

With nuclear brinksmanship so commonplace, it’s easy to feel like the world could easily spiral into a nuclear war. Even some proponents of the “nuclear taboo”—the moral opprobrium against nuclear ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

China is estimated to have more than 600 nuclear warheads, a figure the U.S. predicts will exceed 1,000 by the end of the decade.

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it. June 18, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now Three minutes, a football and a biscuit ...

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 ...

Russia has a "strong incentive" to use more destructive nuclear weapons as Western militaries build up their missile arsenals and improve their air defenses, according to a new report. "Russian ...

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

Too many are copacetic about nuclear weapons. That nukes have not been used since Nagasaki leads them to conclude their use is so insane they will not be used, so everything is fine. The reality is ...

To date, US nuclear doctrine has worked; no one has launched a nuclear attack on the United States, or anyone else, since the end of World War II. Nuclear war is one of the world’s most pressing ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a ...