Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small weapons system. It could fly stealthily into enemy territory, not being mistaken for a bomber or any kind of missile. And then it could detonate a nuclear weapon ...

In several cases, individual officers chose restraint over obedience. Their decisions went against training, orders, and doctrine. Entire civilizations depended on minutes and judgment calls. These ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the firing of "cutting-edge" hypersonic missiles to ready Pyongyang's nuclear forces for war, state media reported Monday, saying "geopolitical crisis" made the ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of "cutting-edge" hypersonic missiles to ready Pyongyang's nuclear forces for war, state media said Monday. Pyongyang said Sunday's test was ...

Months after the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, tensions are rising again as Iran kills protesters, Israel weighs new military action and President Donald Trump signals the U.S. could intervene.

President Trump’s pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is the latest chapter in a long history of U.S. intervention in the Caribbean basin, rooted in the 1823 Monroe Doctrine but ...

Thanks to Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. for raising the “not serious” flag on Kathryn Bigelow’s soap-opera movie, “A House of Dynamite.” Col. José M. López ably details how the film misunderstands the ...

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, Spielberg has continued to attach his name to shows like Falling Skies and ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Erin D. Dumbacher is the Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The United States has the power and a ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded very near the beginning of the nuclear age, just a few months after American atomic bombs decimated two Japanese cities at the end of World War II.