NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Nuclear weapons are often discussed in abstractions, as if they were just another line item in a defense budget or a bargaining chip in diplomacy. The brutal truth is that they are engineered ...

When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was ...

It is also possible that a third, dangerous lesson will be learned from this war: that nuclear weapons are valuable or even indispensable to the national security of non-superpower states. Ukraine, ...

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with ...

Demonstrators hold a mass meeting at Swaffham, Norfolk, England on Dec. 6, 1958, in protest against the setting up of missile bases in Britain. The banner appearing above crowd reads, people of every ...

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.

Several military technological innovations have changed the course of history. From the sailing ship to the stirrup, these advances have pushed the world into new directions, and chief among them is ...

Just days after launching a war against Iran, President Donald Trump favorably compared his efforts eliminating Iran's nuclear weapons capability to a 2015 deal negotiated by one of his predecessors.

Potential U.S. adversaries worldwide are using intentionally hardened facilities to conceal and protect their leaders, military and industrial personnel, weapons, equipment, and other assets and ...