Reports a test firing of a Trident missile from a Royal Navy submarine has failed for the second time in a row has refocused attention on the UK's nuclear capability. The current Vanguard nuclear ...

Could the threat of nuclear war be closer than ever? Amy Hall explores how we got here and the pathways out of the crisis. If you want to get a nuclear-powered submarine refitted, repaired or ...

NUCLEAR bombs are the deadliest weapon on the planet – here’s how they work. At this very moment, there are around 13,080 nuclear warheads in the world, with nearly 90 percent of them belonging to the ...

In late February, as his invasion of Ukraine became bogged down, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia’s nuclear forces had been put on ‘special alert’. This posturing is familiar in wargame scenarios.

The 'gravity bomb' has cutting-edge tech to track down targets A POWERFUL nuclear weapon that’s 24 times stronger than the bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of people at Hiroshima is underway.

The Doomsday Clock, a visual metaphor created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947, moved forwards 30 seconds, the closest it had been to midnight since the testing of the world’s first ...

Discussing nuclear weapons earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the nation “is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear ...

The 'ageing facilities and infrastructure' at Berkshire's nuclear weapons factory are in dire need of improvement - but bosses insist there remains no risk to public safety. The Atomic Weapons ...

There will be "catastrophic" consequences when "luck runs out" on nuclear deterrence, the United Nations (UN) has warned in a major report which highlights the massive risk of an accidental or ...