Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima near the end ...

Russia President Vladimir Putin unveiled the Burevestnik nuclear missile in 2018 and increased activity at the Pankovo test ...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80 years ago this week.

Events commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima were held in some U.S. cities on Wednesday, its 80th anniver ...

With a slew of decisions over many years, US President Donald Trump has raised the risk of a nuclear catastrophe to the ...

Vladimir Putin is feared to be preparing new tests of his jinxed ‘Flying Chernobyl’ missile. The Burevestnik is supposedly ...

The idea that there can be a winner in a nuclear exchange rests on several assumptions: that the conflict can be contained, ...

But nuclear peace is also reliant on there being rational and moral hands on the red button. Putin and Trump may be rational; ...

Skynet Intensifies Nobel laureates met with nuclear experts last month to discuss AI and the end of the world — and if that ...

The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

Andrew Richter is an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.