Nukes

The explosion of a suspectedRussian nuclear-powered cruise missile last week has caused a lot of confusion and anxiety, fueled in part by Russian authorities' continuing secrecy around the accident. Russia has provided few details known about the blast, whic…

In what has become a thing over the past few months, Facebook is the latest of the tech giants to admit that outside contractors were given access to users voice recordings. Though Facebook has been light on the details, we can assume the program played out…

The radiation spike that followed the apparent explosion of a nuclear-powered missile engine in Russia -- an event that left seven dead and has been cloaked in secrecy -- was higher than previously indicated by the country's officials, Russian government weat…

* Russian rocket test last week went badly wrong * At least five killed, radiation levels spike * Trump says Russians were testing nuclear-powered missile * Kremlin says Moscow has edge in arms race despite accident By Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth MOS…

Russia's new nuclear-powered intercontinental cruise missile RU-RTR Russian Television via AP A deadly explosion at a missile test site last week appears to have been caused by a failed test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile, one Russian President…

President Donald Trump said Saturday that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un wants to meet once again to “start negotiations” after joint U.S.-South Korea military exercises end. He also said Kim apologized for the flurry of recent short-range missile tests that has r…

While every military has accidents, the Russian military appears to be more accident-prone than other great powers. "There's a tendency for accidents to happen in Russia," Jeffrey Edmonds, a Russia expert at CNA, told INSIDER. Edmonds, a former CIA anal…

President Donald Trump said on Friday that he received another letter from North Korea's Kim Jong Un on Thursday amid stalled talks over the regime's nuclear weapons program and Kim's recent missile launches. Interested in North Korea? Add North Korea as an…

North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using "widespread and increasingly sophisticated" cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reu…

North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using "widespread and increasingly sophisticated" cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential UN report seen by Reute…