Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are neither safely deterred nor meaningfully disarmed.

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - National security experts, defense industry leaders, and various academic partners all gathered Tuesday (June 24) in Shreveport for the 26th Annual Nuclear Triad Symposium at ...

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and will not do. Russia’s use of ...

The United States will soon face a complex, multi-adversary nuclear threat environment. It cannot afford to drive its adversaries closer together than they already are, so it must develop a set of ...

If China’s long-term objective is to neutralise India while it prioritises Taiwan, India’s central task is not symmetry but ...

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...

In a significant milestone for US strategic deterrence modernization, Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC), formally activated the Sentinel Site Activation ...

The United States recently conducted a war game to test the readiness of its strategic deterrent force that featured B-52H bombers loading nuclear-capable cruise missiles. Global Thunder 26 was the ...

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The United States nuclear-capable bomber fleet saw its capabilities bolstered when a B-2 stealth aircraft—the same type used to strike Iran in June—that was significantly damaged in an incident four ...