As efforts to compensate victims of US nuclear weapons tests continue, a former Senate staffer and expert on the US nuclear program looks back at their harmful effects, and how the government addressed them—or didn't.

Escalating a conflict with the expectation that an opponent will back down—for example, threatening limited use of nuclear weapons—is a flawed strategy that is likely to backfire.

Russian threats to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war constitute the worst nuclear development in 2022, while previous trends of expansion and modernization of nuclear arsenals continue.

While Russia suspends the New START Treaty with the US, China continues rearming. Can the demise of nuclear arms control still be averted?

Kim Jong Un ended 2023 sounding confident, both about his positioning of North Korea’s military security and the prospects for…

President Yoon Suk-yeol asserted that South Korea is capable of quickly developing nuclear weapons but would refrain from doing so to avoid sanctions such as those levied on North Korea.  “Some say that, unlike North ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol slammed North Korea as an “irrational group” for developing nuclear weapons and rejecting the concept of shared Korean ethnicity, speaking in back-to-back high-level defense meetin...

Since the collapse of the unprecedented leader-level diplomatic process between the United States and North Korea in 2019, relations between the two sides have been at a standstill. In 2021, as the Biden administratio...