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

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it came days after joint ...

The war between Israel and Iran came and went in June, leaving a false sense of calm in its wake. Israel attacked Iran, with support from the United States, supposedly with the aim of destroying ...

As wars are increasingly fought with the use of unmanned drones piloted from miles away, Taz Ali looks at what other weapons will shape the conflicts to come ...

The deadliest weapons ever manufactured are becoming a regular feature of Europe’s nearly $9 trillion ESG fund industry, as a label long associated with ethical investing gets stretched to accommodate ...

Former Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev has warned that the country's rivals now faced a “new reality” as the Kremlin formally announced it was no longer bound by a treaty limiting the use of short- and ...

Europe is rearming fast, but it may not be fast enough. Ammunition stockpiles are nearly empty, airspace remains mostly undefended, and only two European countries hold nuclear weapons of their own.

Imagine, if you will, that for unknown reasons North Korea has just launched a nuclear bomb at the United States. What happens next? The journalist Annie Jacobsen has imagined exactly that, and spent ...

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

The United States needs a nuclear posture that can credibly deter limited, non-strategic nuclear war without either forcing it to escalate to central, strategic war or forcing it to lose an ongoing ...