National Security Journal on MSN

Russia’s ‘new’ Tu-160 White Swan bomber can be summed up in just 2 words

Russia’s latest 11-hour Tu-160 “White Swan” patrol over the Arctic underscores how a bomber designed in the late Cold War ...
AOL

US reveals new stealth nuclear missiles on Cold War bomber — the second show of force in a week

The US military was spotted testing a new stealth nuclear weapon on a Cold War bomber last week — just as the Air Force was preparing to test its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile An ...
National Security Journal on MSN

6 nuclear weapons have been missing for decades. The US military won’t search for them anymore

The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Who Can Start a Nuclear War? Inside U.S. Launch Authority and Reform

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...
The National Interest

Why Don’t B-1 Lancer Bombers Carry Nuclear Weapons Anymore?

The United States voluntarily de-nuclearized its B-1 bombers in the 1990s in accordance with the START I treaty with Russia—but it gained much from the move as well. The original B-1A Lancer was ...
Los Angeles Times

The threat of nuclear war never went away

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer ...

First Cold War-Era B-52 Upgraded With 21st Century Radar System

The first B-52 is now carrying out testing with the APQ-188 AESA systems as part of the B-52 Radar Modernization Program.
The Nation on MSNOpinion

Have We Normalized Nuclear War?

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...