Month: May 2021

The Biden administration agreed to a five-year extension of the treaty, the last one capping the nuclear forces of the former Cold War foes, soon after …

… reactors into space during the Cold War as part of the RORSAT missions, a set of Soviet nuclear spy satellites launched between 1967 and 1988.

The games are set in post-apocalyptic Russia after a nuclear war, with … It features first-person shooting with makeshift weapons made from junk and …

… most famously during the Cuban missile crisis, widely acknowledged as the point at which the US and USSR came closest to an actual nuclear war.

The Pentagon hasn’t spent much—relatively speaking, of course—on new nuclear weapons systems in the 30 years since the end of the Cold War. The …

… a hug from former U.S. President Barack Obama five years ago gave him extra leverage to call for peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Beijing does not wish to have to deal with the repercussions of an all-out war, and potential of a nuclear war to boot, right on its doorstep. As the …

… of endings: the radioactive waste left over from nuclear war lingers in the bodies and soil of nations long after peace treaties have been signed.

The Tupolev Tu-22M3, code-named Backfire by NATO, is a supersonic twin-engine long-range bomber that is capable of carrying nuclear weapons …

It would pave the way for Tehran to get nuclear weapons and raise “the risk of another major regional war involving the United States,” it stated.