I USED TO joke”, says a former Pentagon official, “that the only thing British about British nuclear weapons is the fissile material. Everything else is American.” That is an exaggeration. But not by ...

A recently uncovered British government paper provides evidence of a 70-year official cover-up of the consequences of the United Kingdom’s thermonuclear tests in the Pacific after World War II. London ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

MOSCOW, February 25. /TASS/. The statements issued by the French and British embassies denying plans to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons appear to be nothing more than rehearsed cliches, lacking depth ...

Earlier this month, the New START treaty, a strategic-arms reduction agreement between Russia and the United States to limit their nuclear arsenal, expired. That accord was the last in a series of ...