A US aircraft flew on July 16 while transmitting its location publicly and blatantly identifying itself, from a US nuclear weapons depot at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to an airbase in the UK city of Lakenheath.

According to a Bloomberg report citing defense analysts and open-source data, the U.S. is likely to have flown the new B61-12 thermonuclear bombs to the U.K. in a C-17 military aircraft earlier this month.

The United States has relocated nuclear weapons to the UK for the first time in two decades, marking a significant shift in NATO’s nuclear posture in Europe. Open-source analysts tracked a US Air Force aircraft flying from New Mexico to RAF Lakenheath.

As NATO recalibrates its deterrence strategy, the return of US nuclear weapons to Britain is a powerful signal -- one aimed not just at allies, but at adversaries watching closely from Moscow to Tehran.

The U.K. announced over NATO's annual summit in June that it would purchase 12 F-35A nuclear-certified fighter jets.

The United States faces growing dangers of nuclear escalation, a new arms race, and proliferation. This report recommends an improved strategy for “optimal deterrence” and a path to rebuilding ...

Japan and the United States have been discussing a scenario, in which the U.S. military would use nuclear weapons in the event of a c

The US military could soon be storing nuclear weapons in mobile shipping containers. Newly designed 20-foot vaults have been rapidly created to secure critical and sensitive materials in challenging locations.

Whoever is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2025, will immediately be vested with the sole legal authority to order the use of the United States’ nuclear weapons.

Only a few people knew about it at the time, but the United States just entered a frightening unknown world: the age of nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon.

The U.S., on the other hand, has 6,450 nuclear weapons (1,750 deployed, 2,050 stored and 2,650 retired). Statista puts the Russian arsenal at 5,997 nuclear warheads as of January 2022 and the U.S ...

North Korea on Tuesday said the United States must recognize it as a nuclear weapons state if bilateral talks are to resume.