During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

The Cold War-era stockpiles were originally intended for a global conflict with the capitalist bloc. A significant portion ...

On November 17, 1969, détente began to bear fruit with the opening in Helsinki of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) on nuclear weapons. But the Cold War had not yet thawed, and détente ...

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Radioactive dust left over from Cold War Nuclear experiments is still wafting through European air, new research finds.

Strategy in the New Era of Tactical Nuclear Weapons This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Post–Cold War strategic discourse, primarily among Russian strategists, has challenged ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over. Treaties are collapsing, some nuclear powers ...