The global salience of nuclear weapons — once expected to diminish after the Cold War — is instead rising sharply. This ...

Yaroslav Trofimov of The Wall Street Journal explains why he thinks that the U.S., Russia, and China have entered a new nuclear race.

President Donald Trump has ordered preparations to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing, citing alleged Russian and Chinese violations. Moscow and Beijing deny conducting explosive nuclear tests but ...

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured ...

As conflicts deepen and global power centers shift, the international system is entering one of its most volatile periods in decades. The war in Ukraine is grinding into its third year with no end in ...

Since 1996, only 10 nuclear tests have been conducted, by 3 countries: India, Pakistan and North Korea; but Trump has claimed ...

The nuclear non-proliferation treaty between the world’s major powers was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 20th century – given multiple countries already have arsenals big enough to ...

The new nuclear race has begun. But unlike during the Cold War, the U.S. must prepare for two peer rivals rather than one—at a time when it has lost its clear industrial and economic edge. China, ...