Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only to buttress the credibility of non-strategic nuclear ...

North Korea is one potential villain in a fictional movie about nuclear war on Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite.” It is a “Rashomon”-style thriller about the concept of mutually assured destruction that the filmmakers mean to be a wakeup call for nuclear powers.

The W88, estimated to yield 455 kilotons of TNT explosives, is one of the most powerful nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, and is carried on Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) aboard the Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.

BRUSSELS — NATO will hold its major annual nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief announced Friday, with an important part of the drill to focus on protecting the weapons before they're ever used. The long-planned “Steadfast Noon ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US policy at a time of growing tensions between the world’s nuclear-armed superpowers.