The Trinity Test Site Is Open One More Time This Year. You Might Not Get In. White Sands Missile Range, where the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear weapon known as "the Gadget" on July 16, 1945...
You Always Hear About the 'Nuclear Football.' Here's the Behind-the-Scenes Story The “nuclear football” is a bulky briefcase that contains atomic war plans and enables the president to transmit nuclear...
NATO Sees No Change in Russia's Nuclear Posture Despite Belarus Leader's Claims In an interview on state television on, Belarus' president brashly warned that he wouldn't hesitate to order tactical nuclear...
Watchdog: Nuclear States Modernize Their Weapons, Chinese Arsenal Is Growing A report on the world's nuclear weapons says the nine nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals and several...
Putin Says Russian Tactical Nuclear Weapons To Be Deployed to Belarus Next Month Putin said during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko that work on building facilities for the nuclear...
Russia Signs Deal to Deploy Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Belarus Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the deployment of the shorter-range weapons in Belarus earlier this year in a move...
US Bomb Designed to Hit Targets Like Iran Underground Nuclear Sites Briefly Reappears Amid Tensions The U.S. developed the Massive Ordnance Penetrator in the 2000s as concerns grew over Iran hardening its nuclear sites by...
Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors Worry Zelenskyy's G7 Visit Overshadows Nuke Disarmament Message Zelenskyy, asked if he thought he took away attention from other summit issues, said only, "I need to be here.”
'Go Get Screened': Space Force Chief Urges Missileers to Get Tested as Cancer Study Underway The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine said last month it is conducting a study examining a potential link between...
DEFCON Levels DEFCON, short for Defense Readiness Condition or simply Defense Condition, is the U.S. military’s ranking system for defense...
Marine Corps Says Half of Barracks Had Issues, Though Only 118 Marines Moved, After Worldwide Inspection The inspection took place between February and March, a quick time frame for a herculean task that involved looking at...
Temporary Promotions for Army Noncommissioned Officers to End in June The Army will suspend the temporary promotions starting in June in one of the most significant changes to its promotion...
Marine Corps Aims for a New Way of Teaching, Ditching Old Models of PowerPoint Lectures The service will focus on the individual Marine's ability to learn rather than cramming instruction into their heads, whether...
Ukrainian Drone Attack Sets Major Russian Oil Refinery on Fire Oil-processing, one of Russia’s most important industries, has been a target of Ukrainian drone attacks since late January.
Navy's Newest Warship Named for Fierce Marine Corps Campaign in Afghanistan The top leader of the Navy announced Thursday that the service's future amphibious ship, a landing helicopter assault vessel...