In the tense early years of the Cold War, governments around the world were frantically making plans about what to do in the ...

The UK is looking into acquiring tactical nuclear weapons for the first time in 30 years. It is a sign of a more dangerous world - and one where Britain is more reliant than ever on American military ...

The recent report from the Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI), despite its assertion that “understanding the ...

During the Cold War, basing U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe had a strategic rationale – to offset the advantage in conventional forces possessed by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.

The deal did not commit Moscow to helping Iran militarily as Putin faces the possibility of losing another Middle East ally.

Britain must urgently restore tactical nuclear weapons to its defence arsenal. That thought understandably fills many minds ...

Stationing nuclear weapons in bases in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Türkiye, and the Netherlands made sense during the Cold War: Those nations were near the “front lines” of the Warsaw Pact ...

America's latest nuclear-armed delivery platform breaks cover as the US Air Force releases a rendering of its cutting-edge ...

“The war also sends the message that nuclear weapons are a necessary guarantor of national security,” the report said. When the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991, Ukraine held on its territory ...

U.S. nuclear weapons were originally deployed to deter Soviet aggression, ... NATO members’ conventional armies were outnumbered by those of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.

After the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Warsaw Pact, ... South Africa so far remains the only state in history to have both developed its own nuclear weapons and given them up, ...

If the Cold War had gone nuclear, it would have likely begun on German soil. Geographically, Germany sat between the United States and its NATO allies on one side, and the Soviet Union and Warsaw ...