nuclear weapons
Here’s what it’d look like to have a nuclear North Korea capable of bombing the US
After years of the US trying to deter the Kim regime from its nuclear weapons program, now North Korea reportedly has up to 60 nukes — it probably won’t abandon its plans anytime soon.
The only effective arms against North Korea's missile bunkers are nuclear weapons, says a top war planner
Can a nuclear explosion be peaceful? US scientists used to think so.
Harry S. Truman’s grandson speaks out against nuclear weapons
100 days in, world leaders are still wondering if there's any reason to Trump's antics
President Trump, do you have a red line when it comes to North Korea?
Surveillance footage suggests North Korea could be preparing to test a nuclear weapon in the coming weeks. It would be a significant foreign policy test for President Donald Trump.
A father remembers when Korea was one country. His son dreams of seeing the same someday.
The Kang family lived through centuries of Korean unity. Today, they can’t go home.
From the Manhattan Project to the Iran deal: A nuclear timeline
Whoever wins the US presidency on Nov. 8 will be tasked with managing America's increasingly tense relationship with Russia. And that means managing the future of a decades-long and complicated nuclear relationship with Russia — and with the world.
70 years after the first bomb was dropped on their homes, some Bikini islanders are still awaiting compensation
The Marshall Islands were the site of some of the first nuclear tests conducted by the US. Now 70 years on, though, many residents are still awaiting promised compensation.
Why President Obama is moving ahead with the biggest modernization of US nuclear weapons in decades
Many US nuclear systems are aging, and the US military is moving to upgrade and replace them. So how does that square with President Barack Obama, who won a 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts toward denuclearization.
Will US ever be able to clean up the H-bomb material scattered on Spanish coast?
The new US agreement to clean up nuclear contamination in Spain is another attempt to account for a 1966 Cold War accident involving thermonuclear bombs on its coastline.
North Korea kindly reminds you it still has nuclear weapons
North Korea says it's restarting its nuclear fuel program. It's not clear it ever ended. But it once again has international observers trying to guess what the rogue state is doing.
To average Israelis, the problem with the Iran deal is 'politics, not people'
In Tel Aviv’s Levinsky market, Israeli citizens mull the risks of the nuclear deal with Iran, from the threat of war to strained relations between their country and the United States.
Iranian American talks to her conservative relatives in Iran about the nuclear deal
Maryam Abolfazli was born in the US to Iranian parents. She was raised in Tennessee in a progressive family. In 2003, when she went on a trip to Iran, she got to know her conservative relatives. Now that Iran and US have agreed on a nuclear deal, she wanted to know how they feel.
The Iran nuclear deal has North Korea written all over it
Critics of the Iran nuclear agreement like to point to the 1994 deal that President Bill Clinton brokered with North Korea. The dirty secret about the North Korean deal is that it actually worked.