Inside Russia's chilling 'nuclear annihilation' plot as expert warns Britain is 'weak'

With Russian state TV claiming a nuclear attack on the UK is 'inevitable,' experts are expresssing concern about the 'weak' ...
The New Yorker

Going Nuclear Without Blowing Up

There are now about four hundred nuclear power plants worldwide, in over thirty countries on five continents, with sixty more ...

An old danger returns: The nuclear arms race is revving up

Nuclear war creates the ultimate untreatable public health emergency. Prevention is not only the best option, it is the only ...

Expert warns 60% of humanity could die in 72 hours if North Korea, the US, and Russia trigger WWIII

An expert warns that a nuclear exchange involving North Korea, the US, and Russia could lead to catastrophic consequences, ...

Map shows safest countries to be in if Putin launches war on Europe

These countries offer some of the best chances of survival. After Vladimir Putin declared Russia was ‘ready right now’ to ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Post-truth disasters: We’re not ready for nuclear war on social media

On the evening of August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked the Port of Beirut in Lebanon. The explosion happened as hundreds of cameras were already pointed at a burning warehouse, in which more ...
SpaceNews

How Golden Dome could make nuclear weapons irrelevant

For nearly 80 years, the specter of nuclear war has haunted humankind, shaping foreign policy, military strategy, and international relations. The principle of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) has ...
The Washington Post

China rapidly expands nuclear test site as Trump revives Cold War tension

President Donald Trump’s announcement this month that the United States would restart nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other nations — alluding to unverified claims that Moscow and ...
War on the Rocks

Saudi Nuclear Posture After the 12-Day War

Israel’s short but destructive summer war against Iran and its brazen military strikes on Doha in September have reignited a debate across the Middle East over the value of nuclear deterrence. Gulf ...
New York Post

US reveals new stealth nuclear missiles on Cold War bomber — the second show of force in a week

The US military was spotted testing a new stealth nuclear weapon on a Cold War bomber last week — just as the Air Force was preparing to test its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile An ...
THE WEEK

The 5 best nuclear war movies of all time

The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...
CounterPunch

A House of Dynamite’s Nuclear War Crisis Scenario is Chilling

As a peace and disarmament activist for over four decades, I was conflicted about whether to see “A House of Dynamite,” director Katherine Bigelow’s and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim’s new fictional ...