17 U.S. Air Force ICBM Launch Officers Stripped Of Their Authority To Launch Nuclear Missiles

In the past quarter century, Russia and the U.S. each have come close twice to launching nuclear missiles like this Russian ICBM to counter ...

Future Reductions In The U.S. Nuclear Stockpile

Photo : General Norton A. Schwartz US General Asks Cut In Nuclear Stockpile -- Boston.com Says arsenal is too large, costly. WASHINGTON — Th...

Costs For Modernizing US Nuclear Weapons Continues To Rise

The cost of modernizing US nuclear weapons, including those stationed in Germany, has risen sharply, according to estimates. Several indepen...

No White House Request For Slashing America's Deployed Arsenal To 300 Nuclear Weapons

White House Not Considering Slashing Deployed Arsenal to 300 Nukes: Expert -- Global Security Newswire The Obama administration did not requ...

Strategic Command Official: Conventional Weapons Cannot Substitute For Nuclear Weapons

Conventional Arms No Substitute For Nuclear: Strategic Command Official -- Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Strategic Command o...

America's Last Cold War Nuclear Megabombs To Be Dismantled

Pantex officials say this "ensures that the Cold War system will never again be part of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile." Court...

Scavenging Parts For America's Nuclear Weapons

Image from Wikipedia Prospects Grow for Cuts to U.S. Nuclear "Hedge Force" -- Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON -- The U.S. gove...

Why Nuclear Armed Submarines Are Still Vital To U.S. National Defense

SSBN-726 Ohio-Class FBM Submarines. FAS.org The Submarine That Might Save America -- Forbes Imagine that the survival of America depended on...

3 Unique Tours Through U.S. Nuclear History

A modified Minuteman booster vehicle, successfully launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base. U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Raymond Geoffroy Fr...

The U.S. Maintains 150 To 200 Tactical Nuclear Warheads In Europe

The U.S. stores an estimated 200 B-61 thermonuclear gravity bombs in five European countries. SSGT Phil Schmitten / DoD Tactical Nukes in Eu...

Nuclear Weapons Drivers Drunk On The Job

Report: Nuclear Weapon Drivers Drank On The Job -- Washington Post Federal agents responsible for driving nuclear weapons and other sensitiv...

America To Modernize Its Nuclear Arsenal

Obama Expands Modernization of Nuclear Arsenal -- New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama promised Thursday to spend $80 billion over 10...

U.S. To Disclose The Size Of Its Nuclear Weapons Stockpile On Monday

U.S. Is Expected To Reveal Size Of Nuclear Stockpile -- Washington Post The Obama administration is likely to reveal a closely guarded secre...

What's The Point Of Nuclear Weapons On Instant Alert?

Nuclear missiles "on alert" could too easily be launched by mistake From New Scientist: IN THE next few weeks, President Barack Ob...

A New U.S. Nuclear Policy Is Being Drawn Up

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert gates inspects a GBI in its Alaskan silo. Photo from The Register White House Is Rethinking Nuclear Policy -- ...

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy And Strategy -- News Updates February 18, 2010

'US Will Maintain Minimum Nuclear Deterrence' -- Press Trust India Washington, Feb 18 (PTI) The US would maintain a minimum nuclear ...

Nuclear Weapon Spending Has Increased More Under Obama Than Bush

'Nobel Peace Prize-Winner Barack Obama Ups Spending On Nuclear Weapons To Even More Than George Bush' -- The Daily Mail Barack Obama...

Remembering The First Hydrogen Bomb Test

From Wired Science: The long-distance scientific recordings of the blast wave from the first hydrogen bomb test have been rediscovered in a ...

What Future Direction For America's Nuclear Forces?

Obama's Nuclear Posture Review - More News -- Armchair Generalist Bryan Bender reveals some possible indications of how the 2009 Nuclear...

Will President Obama's Vision Of A Nuclear Free World Become Reality?

Obama's Nuclear-Free Vision Mired In Debate -- L.A. Times Pentagon officials have pushed back against the president's goals to shrin...