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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The number of functional nuclear warheads in the world rose sharply in the first decades of the Cold War. The arms race began with the U.S. and USSR, but included the UK, France, China, and India ...

A three-way nuclear arms race will remain a real possibility until, perhaps, all sides recall the lessons of the US-Soviet arms race during the Cold War—and how arms control helped reduce nuclear risk ...

Robert Oppenheimer developed an innovative plan to stop an arms race by giving the world access to nuclear technology. The plan could also be a model for protecting the world from AI risks.

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 ...