The world has seen the devastation caused by the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in the Second World War, but the havoc would be multifold if a modern-day nuclear weapon were used in a ...

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The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

Following US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, Saudi Arabia on Sunday said that here is 'no nuclear effects' detected in Gulf. Earlier, Iran had confirmed there were “no signs of contamination” at its ...

The Cold War ended in 1991. The United States’ commitment to prevent its adversaries’ nuclear ambitions and to extend its nuclear arsenal as an umbrella of protection to its partners has remained ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The global security environment is deteriorating as America’s adversaries are ...

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.