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Editor’s Note: The headline of this story has been updated to include the missing words from Trump's quote.

The U.S. has followed a ‘voluntary moratorium’ on nuclear weapons testing since 1992

US president makes threat after Russian nuclear-powered weapons tests and shortly before meeting with Chinese leader

The SNP has a long-standing opposition to nuclear weapons in an independent Scotland.

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