Nuclear weapons are not going to suddenly disappear. But they might create a more dangerous world in which countries are neither safely deterred nor meaningfully disarmed.

For the first time in years, the Kremlin has officially claimed to have tested one of its so-called "super weapons" — the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile — one of six "next-generation" ...

As the war in Ukraine grinds on and relations with the West remain frozen, Russia has increasingly leaned on advanced strategic weapons to project power far beyond the battlefield. In late 2025, ...

For the first time in years, the Kremlin has officially claimed to have tested one of its so-called "super weapons" — the nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile — one of six “next-generation” ...

Brett McGurk is a CNN global affairs analyst who served in senior national security positions under Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden. In the summer of 2022, I ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Russia is now preparing plans for new nuclear weapons tests — a move announced just days after President Donald Trump publicly said the U.S. is ready to resume its own testing ...

Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia recently completed the successful test of a new nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed missile, Burevestnik (which translates as “Storm Petrel”), calling it “a unique ...

One of the least-discussed but most consequential outcomes of the resurgence of major-power rivalries is the return of nuclear weapons to the center of international politics. The global salience of ...

For more than three years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used nuclear threats as his go-to weapon against Western support for Ukraine. Battlefield setbacks? Cue the warnings about “red lines” ...

Ending the Ukraine War will ultimately require some US-Russia nuclear arms agreement. As the United States, Russia, Ukraine, and most of Europe discuss a peace agreement for the war in Ukraine, an ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...