USA TODAY asked experts what changes our leaders can make to nuclear missile modernization to make the country a safer place.

The Trump administration’s newly released National Defense Strategy (NDS), unveiled on the 23rd (local time), has sparked ...

Moscow’s “Oreshnik” strike on January 9, 2026 is best understood as strategic signaling designed to shape what NATO will and ...

The term “extended deterrence (nuclear umbrella)” has been omitted from the new National Defense Strategy (NDS) under the Trump administration. The phrase was also absent from the National Security ...

The Korean Peninsula illustrates why the stable management of nuclear risk has become more urgent than denuclearization ...

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the debate over their future.

HB 2090 has bipartisan support, and the idea of more nuclear implementation seems to be gaining traction in the Evergreen ...

Discussing nuclear weapons earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the nation “is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear ...

How Rwanda and other developing countries are rethinking nuclear power—not for climate goals, but to deliver reliable energy, ...