The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

Anthropic has developed an AI-powered tool that detects and blocks attempts to ask AI chatbots for nuclear weapons design The company worked with the U.S. Department of Energy to ensure the AI could ...

A reactor in Tehran is a monument to the U.S. relationship with Iran when the country was led by a secular, pro-Western monarch. “Atoms for Peace” was born of a speech President Dwight D. Eisenhower ...

The Doomsday Clock — a symbolic arbiter of how close humanity is to annihilating itself — now sits at 89 seconds to midnight, nearer than it has ever been to signalling our species’ point of no return ...

On May 2, 2011, a US Navy SEAL helicopter soft-crashed into the side of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Within the hour, bin Laden was identified and assassinated. The world’s most ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in a military uniform, announced on Oct. 26, 2025, that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered missile. If true, such a weapon could provide Russia ...