This video explains how nuclear deterrence theory emerged after World War II as strategists grappled with weapons capable of destroying entire cities. Thinkers like Bernard Brodie and analysts at the ...

The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan. But few know this fact: there was a third atomic bomb, perhaps bound for a ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

It's the nation's largest multi-program science and technology laboratory. But nuclear science is its history — and its future.

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...