From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – long-range, strategic bombers. As the conflict wore on, technological ...

During the Cold War, the MAD theory — mutually assured destruction — argued that the United States and the Soviet Union had a ...

“Mutually assured destruction” was one of those blood-chilling concepts that emerged from the game theory approach to nuclear strategy. For my generation, the initials MAD summed up the surreal nature ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction Enemy missiles are attacking your base! Shoot them down and see how long you can last against the onslaught. Games ...

The expiry of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty has barely caused a stir. Yet as great power rivalry takes a new form, the logic of Mutually Assured Destruction—and the ghosts of Dr Strangelove—may ...

Editor’s Note: David A. Andelman, a contributor to CNN, twice winner of the Deadline Club Award, is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, author of “A Red Line in the Sand: Diplomacy, Strategy, ...

The United States and other countries are faced with the existential threat of global warming. Instead of using all available resources to address it, however, they are spending trillions of dollars ...

To the Editor: In August of 1945, the U.S. had three nuclear weapons. We now have 3,708 omnicidal nukes, some 1,500 of which are ready for use. Their purpose? To deter nuclear-armed adversaries from ...

This transfer was the product of an agreement between presidents Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine’s Leonid Kuchma, that all such weapons would be transferred to Russia for elimination, and in ...