Nuclear Weapons

The risk of nuclear war has only grown, yet the public and government officials are increasingly cavalier. Some experts are trying to change that.

Why Eliot Cohen, an intellectual architect of the Iraq War, thinks Trump was right to strike Iran.

Why even a successful attack might do less to curb the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions than a diplomatic deal would have.

Survivors of the nuclear blasts in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still fighting for recognition.

The editor-in-chief of Haaretz on how President Trump enabled Israel to carry out an attack years in the making.

Los Alamos is growing at a pace not seen since J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. 

As the Biden Administration approves new weaponry for Ukrainian forces, Putin has invoked Russia’s nuclear arsenal, but neither move is likely to significantly alter the trajectory of the war.

The country’s nuclear-weapons program is in bad shape, yet it is one of only two nations actively rearming. What’s it all for?

The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not.

The prospect of Armageddon today is even scarier than during the Cuban missile crisis.

A Russian attack would terrorize the Ukrainian population and shatter a seven-decade-old international taboo, all while bringing few benefits on the battlefield.

In recent weeks, we’ve seen a sharp turn of events in Russia and Ukraine. But, even as Ukrainian troops make significant advances, Moscow is threatening nuclear war.

Putin’s latest provocations once again put Washington in an awful bind.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

Even if his hold on power is precarious, he can still convince Russians that the whole world is conspiring against them.

The Russian leader’s incendiary references to the bomb have revived fears from a bygone era.

The Biden Administration faces a potential confrontation with a longtime rival that is better armed and more hard-line than at any time in its modern history.

The President-elect has known key revolutionaries for decades, but time is short before Iran’s own Presidential election.

The myths of national nobility do not exist for today’s first graders.

The activist and linguist has serious concerns about the future of American democracy, although, in his view, it “was never much to write home about.”