The current situation requires that everything possible be done to avert a new arms race that would further threaten peace among nations,” Pope Leo said.

Yet January 14th marked the longest period humankind has gone without one or another part of the whole exploding one of these deadly weapons, stretching back to the last North Korean test in September, 2017. All other nuclear armed states conducted their last nuclear tests between 1990 and 1998 when Pakistan ceased its nuclear testing.

Trump been ratcheting up threats against Iran over the past several weeks, urging a nuclear deal and increasing U.S military presence in the region.

R OBERT OPPENHEIMER, the father of America’s nuclear bomb, described his country’s atomic rivalry with the Soviet Union as “two scorpions in a bottle”. The risks of this standoff have been contained over the years by various arms-control agreements,

For more than five decades, the United States and Russia (and before it, the

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that if the New START treaty expired with no replacement then the world should be alarmed that the biggest nuclear powers had no limits for probably the first time since the early 1970s.

From the Cuban Missile Crisis to accidental launch alarms, history reveals just how close humanity has come to the brink of nuclear war more than once. This video examines near-miss moments, declassified incidents,

VLADIMIR Putin’s favourite nuclear loudmouth has warned Russia could unleash its doomsday arsenal if the Kremlin believes the country’s survival is at stake. Dmitry Medvedev said nukes would be