" This vast facility, then, accounts for the huge stockpile of nuclear missiles in New Mexico. There are about 2,485 warheads held in this secretive facility. Kirtland Underground Munitions and ...

America’s nuclear arsenal is aging—and is ill-fit for today’s challenges. Even once the nuclear modernization program ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

RAF Lakenheath could host American nuclear weapons for the first time since 2008 amid emerging threats from Russia and terrorists that could aim to carry out an attack on the UK ...

The Cold War prospect of global annihilation has faded from consciousness, but the warheads remain. June 4, 2025 Jon B. Wolfsthal is the director of global risk at the Federation of American ...

Although predictions vary widely, reports from America’s Department of Defence predict that the Chinese arsenal will grow from its current level of 500 warheads to 1,000 by 2030 and 1,500 by 2035.

Faced with an American warhead modernization program that will place at risk increased numbers of Russian and Chinese ICBMs, they will have little choice but to respond, and perhaps asymmetrically ...

With regard to the three largest deployable nuclear arsenals, Russia had 4,310 warheads, a decrease of 0.8 percent from 2018, while the U.S. possessed 3,700, a decrease of 2.6 percent.