The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...

Washington: Top American Senators heard stark warnings about China's accelerating nuclear expansion and its move toward AI-enabled command systems, with witnesses telling lawmakers that Beijing is ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...

The old mechanisms to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons are too antiquated and have lost their meaning with the coming of ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires ...

This essay contains spoilers for the film A House of Dynamite. In the opening minutes of Kathryn Bigelow's latest film, A House of Dynamite, the unthinkable happens — a single nuclear warhead is ...

One of the least-discussed but most consequential outcomes of the resurgence of major-power rivalries is the return of nuclear weapons to the center of international politics. The global salience of ...

Confronting the new nuclear era. Ad Policy Salt accumulations resulting from dripping water seen in a shaft of the Asse II nuclear waste storage facility on October 15, 2025, in Remlingen near ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. Kathryn Bigelow’s gripping doomsday thriller A House of Dynamite ...

The United States nuclear-capable bomber fleet saw its capabilities bolstered when a B-2 stealth aircraft—the same type used to strike Iran in June—that was significantly damaged in an incident four ...

China is estimated to have more than 600 nuclear warheads, a figure the U.S. predicts will exceed 1,000 by the end of the decade.