Nukes

Airmen flew two B-52H Stratofortresses on a 12-hour mission Monday from RAF Fairford in England to train with allies bordering the Black Sea. The training flight, during which the bomber task force trained with allied and partner counterparts from Romania, U…

Netflix's Daybreak details what happens after the end of the world if the only remaining sources of intelligent life are unaccompanied minors. But although that raucous premise has the potential to be entertaining, its sense of humor is misguided and off-putt…

At an upcoming summit in early December, NATO is expected to declare space as a warfighting domain, partly in response to new developments in technology. If it does declare space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or…

Steps from several of New York City's busiest beaches, and hidden by tangled overgrowth studded with poison ivy, are the dystopian remains of a US Army base that once housed Cold War-era nuclear missiles. Fort Tilden is tucked between bustling seaside commun…

MOSCOW, Oct 21 (Reuters) - A Russian nuclear submarine taking part in military exercises overseen by President Vladimir Putin failed to test fire an intercontinental ballistic missile last week, the Vedomosti daily reported on Monday. The nuclear submarine K…

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea must produce new solutions for the current standoff on the Korean Peninsula, a senior North Korean military official said on Monday, warning that hostile policies towards Pyongyang would lead to serious co…

Washington (AFP) - Hillary Clinton on Sunday posted a joke letter on Twitter supposedly sent by John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, written in the excitable style of US President Donald Trump's recent letter to Turkey. The parody letter, or…

WASHINGTON Turkeys president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his countrys border. He says he wants the Bomb. In the weeks leading up to his order to launch the military across the border to clear Kurdish areas,…

Key Point: India has its nukes pointed at China and Pakistan, two other nuclear powers. India is estimated to have produced enough military plutonium for 150 to 200 nuclear warheads, but has likely produced only 130 to 140, according to Hans Kristensen and M…

One of the longest-serving nuclear weapons in Americas arsenal is the B61 nuclear free-fall bomb. The B61 bomb was first introduced in 1966 with more than three thousand bombs produced to date. The bomb is famous for its adjustable yield capability, giving it…