"The two leaders affirmed the need to maintain human control over the decision to use nuclear weapons," the White House said in a statement. "The two leaders also stressed the need to consider ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial intelligence will get baked into the world’s most dangerous systems. The ...

New Delhi: A comprehensive new report by Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA), provided exclusively to AFP, concludes that nuclear weapons testing between 1945 and 2017 contributed to at least four million ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...

The 2nd Soviet atomic bomb, RDS-2, was tested on September 24, 1951 at the Semipalatinsk test site and produced a 38.3 kiloton yield. Deep down, everyone knows nuclear weapons are a danger. We know ...

Studies of the potential climate effects of nuclear war in the 1980s focused on northern hemisphere, large-scale nuclear conflicts, and predicted more extreme global “nuclear winter” scenarios.