World News Story Time Running Out On Last Us Russia Nuclear Arms Treaty

Has Putin launched the second nuclear arms race?

Historian Serhii Plokhy explains why the Kremlin’s nuclear proliferation has begun a dangerous new era of mutually assured destruction ... Read More

Last nuclear treaty between US and Russia nears expiration as Trump and Putin trade testing threats

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have spent weeks trading threats to restart nuclear tests, an escalation kicked off by Putin’s boasts about tests of the Poseidon nuclear ... Read More

Are we entering a new nuclear arms race?

Yaroslav Trofimov of The Wall Street Journal explains why he thinks that the U.S., Russia, and China have entered a new nuclear race. Read More

The nuclear arms race is back, and it’s testing US power

The global salience of nuclear weapons — once expected to diminish after the Cold War — is instead rising sharply. This revival is testing U.S. power at a moment when Washington faces a more complex ... Read More

Nuclear weapons: Time is running out

“The threat of nuclear war never went away” (Nov. 2, Opinion) is a timely reminder. The world cannot afford another nuclear arms race. In less than 100 days, the last remaining arms control treaty ... Read More

Letters to the Editor: We’re watching ‘a dangerous escalation of the nuclear arms race’ in real time

To the editor: Eighty years ago, more than 200,000 people were killed by two atomic bombs dropped in Japan. Humanity did not recoil from that horror. Instead, we went on to stockpile around 70,000 ... Read More

Top U.S. Negotiator Warned Europeans That Russia Is Stockpiling Missiles

Daniel P. Driscoll, the U.S. Army secretary, used the growing threat from Moscow as a way to sell a quick peace deal unfavorable to Ukraine. Read More