During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

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 ...

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa’s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National ...

Seoul has developed a military strategy designed to conduct preemptive and retaliatory strikes against North Korea.

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

This year’s contributors to the Bulletin’s “Voices of Tomorrow” section, which features essays and opinion pieces by rising experts, focused heavily on the threats posed by nuclear weapons. We also ...

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 ...

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Pentagon realized that deploying megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe the highest level nuclear weapon in US inventory was not just unlikely, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A nuclear weapon, carried by balloon, detonates as part of Operation Plumbob in 1957. Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small ...