This harrowing analysis imagines a full-scale global conflict erupting in 2050, examining the real-world consequences of nuclear war between major powers. From the obliteration of cities and mass ...

On Nov. 16, U.S. and Chinese leaders met on the margins of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru, jointly affirming “the need to maintain human control over the decision to use ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tobin Harshaw is a Bloomberg Opinion senior editor and columnist on national security and military affairs. Previously, he was deputy editor at the op-ed page of the New York Times and the newspaper’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

The prospect of a nuclear war between the United States and Russia occurring within the next 10 years is low but not nonexistent. The war in Ukraine is the dominant concern here. Russia views Ukraine ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a ...