Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

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Introduction -- Building the bomb -- Controlling the bomb -- Racing with the bomb -- Why states want nuclear weapons--and why they don't -- Today's nuclear world -- The new U.S. policy -- The good ...

When Donald Trump ordered testing of nuclear weapons to resume – for the first time in 33 years – he claimed that the US possesses more nukes than any other country. In fact, it is how the US ...

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 ...

Minutes before walking into a high-stakes meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this past week, President Donald Trump announced what could prove to be a stunning shift in American nuclear policy.

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 ...