In the pre-dawn dark of July 16, 1945, a searing flash lit up the New Mexico desert. A shockwave followed, rippling outward across the silent plains. This was Trinity — the world’s first nuclear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, the Philippines and never-completed atomic energy station, sits on a peninsula hours north of ...

In the depths of an old Soviet nuclear missile command center in Ukraine, remnants of the Cold War resurface as stark reminders of a fragile peace. PERVOMAISK, Ukraine — On the third somber ...

Please join the CSIS Aerospace Security Project on Monday, July 21 at 2:00 PM EDT for a virtual discussion with Dr. Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of ...

Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose. – Bernard Brodie, The ...