The Arctic territory is of strategic importance, under the flight paths that nuclear-armed missiles from China and Russia ...

Great power competition gives the United States all the more reason to invest in international cooperative frameworks for nuclear arms control.

President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, nicknamed Star Wars, promised to create a missile defense system so effective it would eliminate the threat of nuclear war forever, at a cost of ...

In September 1967, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that the United States would deploy an antiballistic missile (ABM) system of radars and nuclear-tipped interceptors capable of defending ...