The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Moscow would only use its nuclear arsenal in "emergency circumstances" and that it has no interest in a direct confrontation with NATO and the United States.

Vladimir Putin earlier this year placed the Kremlin’s strategic nuclear weapons forces on ‘high alert’

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday during a speech at the Moscow international security conference that Russia had no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

As escalating tensions among the United States, Russia and China revive old fears of nuclear war, some researchers are warning that even a limited-scale exchange between such nations as India and Pakistan could have catastrophic consequences for global food supplies and trigger mass death worldwide.

A nuclear war between Russia and the US would have devastating global impacts including famine and the deaths of an estimated five billion people according to new research looking into possibilities of this type of conflict

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is offering “audacious” economic assistance to North Korea if it abandons its nuclear weapons program

Rolling coverage of the latest developments following the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago

The FBI is reportedly investigating whether Donald Trump removed classified records relating to nuclear weapons from the White House and took them to Mar-a-Lago.

Documents sought by the U.S. Justice Department from former President Donald Trump may contain material related to what The New York Times described as “some of the most highly classified programs run by the United States.” The Washington Post reported that “classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the…