Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion. After four days of exchanging airstrikes and drone attacks on military infrastructure brought India and Pakistan to the precipice of war ...

Any such exploitation increases the potential for the war to spread. Imaging the fallout of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India invites too many horrors to contemplate. Their region ...

Pakistan has warned there is a real danger of nuclear war with India if tensions between the neighbors continue to escalate. Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif issued the chilling warning ...

Pakistan has promised a “measured but forceful response,” threatening a wider war endangering everyone. India and Pakistan each have about 170 nuclear weapons. A nuclear war between India and ...

Looming above the carnage is the apparition of nuclear war erupting between two of the world’s nine nuclear powers, on a subcontinent with an aggregate population approaching 2 billion.

It’s clear and straightforward: the United States must avoid nuclear war or all other national obligations will become moot. It follows that all available fiscal and intellectual resources should be ...

Even a limited nuclear war in Europe would lead to catastrophic global climatic effects. Huge amounts of debris thrown high into the atmosphere would block sunlight, causing global temperatures to ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. As the world became more dangerous in 2024, the use of its most dangerous weapons has become more likely. This trajectory raises the ...

During the 1960s, Pentagon war planners concluded that a successful and winning U.S nuclear war would annihilate an estimated 600 million people, a million of which would be U.S. allies.

Practically speaking, this would guarantee that the use of nuclear weapons would not be strategically advantageous, but on the contrary would result in Russia’s decisive defeat in the war ...

"Bunkers are, in fact, not a tool to survive a nuclear war, but a tool to allow a population to psychologically endure the possibility of a nuclear war," explained Alicia Sanders-Zakre of the ...

The prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and Russia occurring within the next 10 years is low but not nonexistent. The war in Ukraine is the dominant concern here. Russia views ...