RAF Lakenheath is reported to have received US nuclear weapons in the summer — is the UK complicit in Washington's nuclear escalation?

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

With or without Iran, the number of nuclear states could double, raising the risk of catastrophe. June 25, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now For 80 years, the United States has invested enormous effort in ...

The world’s nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, a think tank has said. A new arms race is emerging after decades of reductions in the ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The United States and South Korea face increasingly dangerous threats in China ...