Nato is considering putting more of its nuclear ... has 172 weapons in its stockpile – its largest ever. But they are not designed to fight nations from the other side of the world.

If you can't see the map below, click here There are a total of 12,121 nuclear weapons throughout the world, and over 75% of ...

“I think that suggests that it’s possible.” Deal or not, using just a fraction of the world’s nuclear weapons could cause global devastation. In the 1980s, scientists predicted that smoke ...

Nine countries are known to have nuclear weapons, but it is the US and Russia that still account for almost 90 percent of the ...

President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus said that more than a dozen Russian nuclear weapons have been moved to his country. Military experts weigh in on the ways that a potential global conflict ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has reiterated a nuclear weapons warning against countries "testing our resolve," saying Moscow will safeguard ...

In 2023, countries with nuclear weapons spent a combined $91.4 billion (£72.7 billion) on their arsenal, and "global security leaders are warning nuclear threats are growing". In response ...

The world’s nine nuclear powers have the ability to end all life on Earth. In Russia and the U.S., the power to launch those world-ending weapons rests in the hands of a single human being.

The world perceives chemical and biological weapons as very dangerous but not as a source of power. Nuclear weapons can lose their power, too. Contrary to popular belief, nuclear weapons are ...