Since then, its threat has shaped and justified global conflict. Both Iraq and Iran have been accused of seeking the bomb, ...

The Tsar Bomba's explosion was unparalleled in power. With a 50 megaton capacity, this nuclear test was estimated to be 3,800 ...

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 ...

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 men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...

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 ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...

In the World War II History Roundtable’s next presentation at Greenville’s Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, author and U.S. Naval War College professor Jonathan Parshall will be discussing factors ...

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 ...

Many Europeans and Americans no longer view a global war as a remote prospect and believe World War III could happen in the ...

Russia will not dare to use nuclear weapons, as that would be an act of madness, according to an interview with the leader ...