Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

US bomber Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the same as those which dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, heading to bomb Osaka in 1945. United States Army Air Force August 2025 marked the 80th ...

Nuclear deterrence theory emerged after the invention of atomic weapons. Strategists realized the real power was the threat, not use. Second strike capability became the key to survival. If ...

The "Cold War" nuclear weapons race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended in December 1991 with the fall of the Soviet ...

Aug. 6 (UPI) --Eighty years ago today, the first of two atom bombs was used in anger. Hiroshima was vaporized. But one plane, one bomb, destroying a city was inconceivable. The Japanese now could ...

August 6 and 9 are the 80 th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius ...

Japanese atomic bomb survivors said Thursday they feared the world was marching towards nuclear war as the last US-Russian ...

For most of the next two decades, the decision to use nuclear weapons went largely unquestioned. But beginning in the 1960s, scholars and activists asserted that it was both unnecessary and immoral.

It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

The end of the pact could unleash a new arms race between the world’s top nuclear powers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...