In recent days, Iran targeted Israel’s nuclear facility in the southern town of Dimona, injuring more than 100 people. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called for restraint to avoid a “nuclear accident”. There is much evidence to support the existence of Israel’s arsenal.

Some of the most powerful weapons ever developed by the United States were designed to dominate the battlefield, but in doing so they came dangerously close to exceeding the limits of practical use. From high-yield nuclear systems to experimental technologies,

Donald Trump plans to turn the UK into a “potential nuclear launchpad” and put American nuclear missiles on British soil for the first time since 2008, said the Daily Mail. The return of US nukes to these shores could prove controversial, as was their ...

It is also possible that a third, dangerous lesson will be learned from this war: that nuclear weapons are valuable or even indispensable to the national security of non-superpower states. Ukraine, Venezuela and Iran have all now recently been attacked by nuclear-armed superpowers.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades ...

On November 2, Russia launched the nuclear-powered attack submarine Khabarovsk at its Sevmash shipyard. The 10,000-tonne submarine is purpose-built to carry a completely new type of weapon, the Poseidon nuclear-powered underwater drone. Russian defence ...