In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear proliferation, President Trump says he has directed the Pentagon to “start testing” U.S. nuclear weapons “on an ...

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

President Trump explained the order by saying other, unnamed nations were testing their own nuclear weapons, even though no country has tested since 2017. By David E. Sanger and William J. Broad David ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one. “As of today, the ...

When it comes to nuclear weapons strategy, stability is the goal. But President Donald Trump’s back-to-back announcements about nuclear testing and nuclear submarines on Oct. 29 during his trip to ...

Several military technological innovations have changed the course of history. From the sailing ship to the stirrup, these advances have pushed the world into new directions, and chief among them is ...

The United States openly tracks thousands of nuclear warheads, yet a small number have slipped permanently out of reach. Yes, the US has lost 6 nuclear weapons, and each disappearance left a trail of ...

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries. By David E.

Donald Trump feigned ignorance about Project 2025 during the last presidential campaign. Since Trump’s election, the 900-page blueprint for a unitary presidency has decimated the federal government.

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 ...

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY that dives into the strategic debate and costs of modernizing the land leg ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...