The Latest Breaking News from Nuclear Weapons

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make…

About 1,400 staff at NNSA, which manages America’s nuclear weapons stockpile, to be furloughed on Monday

The US agency in charge of nuclear weapons is putting most of its workforce on unpaid leave, a top Republican lawmaker warned Friday, as a prolonged government shutdown bit further into already crippled public services.

Steadfast Noon will run for about two weeks and will be led by the Netherlands and involve 71 aircraft from 14 NATO countries.

Bomber aircraft and fighter jets that can carry nuclear warheads are taking part

Donald Trump has dubbed nuclear weapons the “n-word” as he appears to go off script whilst addressing military leaders.

Kim Jong Un’s vice foreign minister equates nukes to North Korea’s right to existence

South Korea’s Lee warns that Pyongyang is in the last stage of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the US with a nuclear weapon

The New START deal, signed by then-US and Russian presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.

Kim Jong Un says he has ‘fond memories with Trump’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled he is open to talks with Washington if the United States abandons its insistence that Pyongyang give up nuclear weapons, reviving a long-stalled diplomatic track while reaffirming he will not disarm.