Nukes

Key point: Russia is rushing ahead with hypersonic missiles and delivery via submarine would be a real threat. Russias attack submarine fleet is one of the best in the world. When the Akula and Alfa classes of Soviet nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) were lau…

China celebrated the 70th aniversary of the communist state this year. | Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo By ASSOCIATED PRESS 09/30/2019 11:24 PM EDT Chinas military has shown off a new hypersonic ballistic nuclear missile believed capable of breaching all exist…

President Trump has announced that John Bolton is out as National Security Adviser. Trump used Twitter to announce the staff change. USA TODAY WASHINGTON  President Donald Trump's ex-national security adviser, John Bolton, warned Monday that Kim Jong Un ha…

Bolton, who was ousted earlier this month after a year and a half as Trumps top security aide in part because of his hawkishness, began his remarks by joking that North Koreas leadership was likely delighted by the fact he was there in a private capacity. P…

Image copyrightGetty Images China will hold one of its biggest ever military parades on Tuesday as part of its celebrations for 70 years of Communist Party rule, and Beijing is promising to show off a host of new home-grown weaponry. What equipment might we…

BEIJING (AP) A parade Tuesday by China's secretive military will offer a rare look at its rapidly developing arsenal, including possibly a nuclear-capable missile that could reach the United States in 30 minutes, as Beijing gets closer to matching Washington …

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Key point: Signaling is important. Nuclear powers rarely go to war with each other, but that doesnt mean they dont threaten to do so. Indeed, military posturing is an integral part of what Forrest Morgan, an analyst for the RAND Corporation, called crisis s…

So Iran counterattacked. Not right away for a year, Iran continued to abide by the nuclear agreement, apparently hoping that Europeans would rescue the pact. But then Iran began to gradually discard the nuclear-production restrictions, and to strike out, hitt…

Just north of the Tennessee River near Huntsville, Alabama, theres a six-story rocket test stand in a small clearing of loblolly pines. Its here, in a secluded corner of NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center, that the US Army and NASA performed critical tests du…