Explore the Cold War period, one of the most significant and tense times in modern history. Unlike traditional wars fought ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

The 1980s witnessed mass demonstrations demanding a nuclear freeze. Today, the threat of nuclear war is beginning to enter ...

News; Nation/World; The post-Cold War era is gone, a new arms race has arrived Feb. 21, 2023 Updated Tue., Feb. 21, 2023 at 8:43 p.m. A soldier stands in front of PATRIOT (Phased Array Tracking ...

The nuclear nightmares of the Cold War are back. The world's nine nuclear-armed nations — including the United States, Russia and China — "spent a combined total of $91.4 billion on their ...

Fundamentally, we are not addressing the harms of nuclear weapons, which keep growing. Spending on “modernizing” the nuclear ...

The war in Ukraine has accelerated the unraveling of the international arms-control architecture painstakingly constructed from the Cold War onward, heightening concern among experts that a new ...

From Putin's threats of deploying tactical nukes to Iran's potential for a bomb, the use of nuclear weapons is becoming a dreaded reality ...

Russia and China are pushing the world toward a new nuclear arms race. And it could be even more dangerous, and more difficult to brake, than the Cold War competition that ended three decades ago.

In his introduction to the SIPRI Yearbook 2025, Smith also warns of the prospect of a new nuclear arms race that carries "much more risk and uncertainty" than during the Cold War era — largely ...

During the Cold War, the superpowers signed a number of arms control agreements that helped build trust and limit the scope of their competition. Generally, they agreed to ban nuclear weapons from ...