The best time to get atomic weapons out was several years ago. The second best time is now.

Hawks are telling the president to toughen up on Chinese nukes, but their plan might spur a new global atomic arms race.

As the secret base gets "stormed," a veteran of war and conspiracy reporting reflects on the Nevada desert's dirtiest un-secrets.

A radioactive mess near the Arctic Circle suggests our next superpower arms race will be even more foolish than the last one.

His withdrawal from the INF Treaty will spur a rush to build new arsenals with no plan for how to use them.

After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

The predictable result of the Trump administration's incoherent foreign policy

If Trump wanted to give himself sweeping new powers, could anyone stop him?

Splashy summits and Nobel Prize talk are a sideshow. The real power behind peace on the Korean Peninsula isn’t Donald Trump or even Kim Jong-un. It's South Korean President Moon Jae-in.

As Donald Trump plays chicken with North Korea, it's worth remembering that this is also a business. Some profit; others suffer.

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.

How Trump is increasing the risk of nuclear war

A summit in North Korea could offer the president a solution to the current crisis—really.

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

Buried beneath the Great Plains lies a decommissioned Air Force control center that was once powerful enough to lay waste to the Soviet Union.

His threats against North Korea expose the many dangers of the White House's post-9/11 powers. Here's what Congress must do.

Will Trump's bluster spark a war with Iran?

The class responsible for the lucrative rush to war can literally buy its way out of annihilation, thanks to the boom in luxury bunkers.