The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

The prospect of a new North Korean nuclear test underscores the limited options for Washington and its allies, who have embraced "deterring" Pyongyang through major military drills that some current and former officials say may exacerbate tensions.

Survivors of 1945 atomic bomb express deep concern amid bellicose rhetoric from Russia and North Korea

The new B61-12 gravity nuclear bomb which can carry a yield more powerful than the Hiroshima blast will be delivered by the US to Europe months earlier than planned

The warning came as North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles towards Japan. US officials said: "There is no scenario in which the Kim regime could employ nuclear weapons and survive"

US tells North Korea any use of nuclear weapons would spell end of its ruling regime

The UN's nuclear watchdog will this week carry out an "independent verification" of Russian allegations concerning the production of so-called dirty bombs at two sites in Ukraine, it said on Thursday. Russia has accused Ukraine of preparing to use such a weapon against Moscow's troops, but Kyiv suspects Russia might…

North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Friday in its first ballistic weapons launches in two weeks, as the U.S. military warned the North that the use of nuclear weapons “will result in the end of that regime.”

About four million people across Ukraine are being affected by rolling power cuts due to Russian strikes on electricity infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his Friday evening address. Earlier on Friday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Moscow had "completed" the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists in just…

The United States is to reportedly fast-track the sending of B61-12 air dropped gravity bombs to NATO allies with the delivery now set to take place in December rather than next spring