The United States has not seen a widespread nuclear disarmament movement since the early 1980s. A new one is desperately needed — but with a twist. The 1980s movement was based on fear. In 1982, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 13, President Donald Trump did something truly rare — he made sense. In an Oval Office press meeting, for the first time ...

Since their creation, nuclear weapons have struck awe and horror in the popular imagination, including that of the scientists who helped create them. The horrific damage, death and destruction caused ...

A nuclear policy expert appointed to the Department of Energy under the Biden administration in February 2024 previously co-authored an article entitled "queering nuclear weapons" which argued "queer ...

The interests of the United States are increasingly at odds with those of our rivals. In these times of uncertainty, it should be comforting to know that our immense military is here to keep us safe.

An international group of bishops is calling for “universal, verifiable nuclear disarmament” on the third anniversary of a key global nuclear disarmament treaty. The prelates of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...

On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the ...

"We've got to have this thing over here, whatever it costs," Labour's then foreign secretary Ernest Bevin reportedly said in the 1940s, and "we've got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it". That ...

On February 13, President Donald Trump expressed his desire to ”denuclearize” the United States and pursue arms control with China and Russia. Two weeks later, President Trump stated that “it would be ...

President Trump's plan to create an American Iron Dome missile defense shield in orbit, a futuristic leap over Israel's air defense system, shown here, could be part of a master plan to reduce the ...

Amid all the chaos in the world, I want to provide a ray of light, a sliver of hope: We may be on the verge of radically reducing the gravest global existential danger ‒ that of nuclear weapons. Many ...

Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb has been a cultural triumph. Besides its artistic achievements—it has racked up awards and shined again at last night’s Oscars—the film ...