Nuclear weapons shaped every decision of the Cold War — but why weren’t they ever used? This video explores the evolution of ...

Great power competition gives the United States all the more reason to invest in international cooperative frameworks for ...

I recently posted an important and inspiring essay by David Krieger - founder and president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - and originally appearing on the Great Transition Initiative website ...

The UK is "vulnerable to attack" from China and Russia as its nuclear deterrence doctrine is "stuck in the Cold War era", a new report has warned. The paper, published by think tank Policy Exchange ...

IN THE DEPTHS of the cold war, American spooks and generals came to suspect that the nuclear-weapons club was about to gain an incongruous new member. That state was Sweden, a neutral power that sat ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a strike – ...

Drones have the potential to enhance nuclear deterrence, but they also introduce significant risks in terms of escalation control and first-strike stability. Drones and other autonomous vehicle ...

It’s another worrying sign that the Trump administration is shifting its military strategy away from deterrence – and increasing the likelihood of nuclear war. The Secretary of War plaques are ...

As recently as a decade ago, it would not have been hard to unite a broad majority of Republicans and Democrats around a shared idea of what America’s military power should be for. Defense of the ...