The New START treaty has expired. For 15 years, the treaty served as an agreement between the United States and Russia to limit deployed nuclear weapons; its expiration signals the end of the old nuclear arms control regime and portents the world’s entry into a dangerous new period of unconstrained arsenals.

Beijing, Moscow and shaken American allies are seeking new warheads as President Trump ends more than a half century of nuclear arms control with Russia.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - President Vladimir Putin dramatically escalated East-West tensions by ordering Russian nuclear forces put on high alert Sunday, while Ukraine’s embattled leader agreed to talks with Moscow as Putin’s troops and tanks drove deeper ...

The risks of this stand-off have been contained over the years by various arms-control agreements, most recently New START. But that treaty expired this week, with no replacement. To make matters more dangerous,

February 5, 2026, was the date on which the New START Treaty expired without the US and Russia renewing it. The People's Republic of China also did not

Shortly before lunchtime on Oct 30 1961, a Soviet plane flying above the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb ever created.

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 secrecy, environmental risk, and unresolved questions ...

Khaberni - Hebrew media reported that Tel Aviv and Washington are preparing for a more threatening scenario led by the disintegration of Iran and the unrestrained release of its missile and nuclear capabilities,

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium might be nearing an end. Politicians, including U.S ...

New Delhi: China is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal. It has significantly increased plutonium pit production and high-explosive stockpiles. Experts warn that this increase could escalate geopolitical tensions and alter global security dynamics.

The United States voluntarily de-nuclearized its B-1 bombers in the 1990s in accordance with the START I treaty with Russia—but it gained much from the move as well. The original B-1A Lancer was designed in the 1970s as a supersonic nuclear penetrator ...