When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Following their first meeting in Geneva in 1985, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a historic joint statement stating their shared belief that “a nuclear war cannot be ...

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion. After four days of exchanging airstrikes and drone attacks on military infrastructure brought India and Pakistan to the precipice of war, these ...

The American president has the sole authority to order a nuclear strike, even if every adviser in the room is against it. June 18, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now Three minutes, a football and a biscuit ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer ...

The Doomsday Clock — a symbolic arbiter of how close humanity is to annihilating itself — now sits at 89 seconds to midnight, nearer than it has ever been to signalling our species’ point of no return ...

In “Preventing Nuclear War,” an essay published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in 1981, the Harvard law professor Roger Fisher imagines a President in the White House, discussing nuclear ...

Millions of people dead, buildings, bridges and other infrastructure collapse, and whatever remains standing is riddled with contamination and trauma. The words “nuclear war” hold an intensely ...

The world entered the nuclear age 80 years ago this week, when the US military tested the first atomic bomb at the Trinity Site in the New Mexico desert. Just three weeks later, US bombers dropped ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...