The United States and Iran announced a preliminary agreement on June 15, 2026 to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and extend their ceasefire for 60 days — but defence hawks and nuclear experts warn the ...

The United States and Iran have entered the second week of a pivotal 60-day period aimed at finalizing a technical nuclear ...

The United States is on a mission to modernize its aging nuclear weapons stockpile. And physicists have feelings about it — and the future of nuclear weapons more broadly. To work on nuclear weapons, ...

A 2nd Maintenance Squadron weapons load team is evaluated during an Air Combat Command Nuclear Surety Inspection at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. Credit: U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman ...

“The United States is currently in the middle of a giant nuclear modernization program, reinvesting in its atomic infrastructure like it hasn’t in decades” to keep up with the “modernization of ...

It’s the end of the world as we know it. And it won’t be fine — at least according to the cautionary documentary “Countdown to Zero.” There may be no more important public concern or one less welcome ...

Folks-on-the-street interviews at the outset of the documentary "Countdown to Zero" kind of sum up the attitude of many people about nuclear weapons nowadays. Even amid the war on terror, people admit ...