Finland plans to declare that it won’t station nuclear weapons on its territory in peacetime even as the Nordic country is changing its laws to allow such a move.

The country has been leveraging armed conflicts abroad, such as Russia’s war against Ukraine, to bolster its own military capabilities.

When three villagers from China’s Sichuan province wrote to local officials in 2022 asking why the government was confiscating their land and evicting them from their homes, they received a terse reply: It was a “state secret.

For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the largest nuclear forces on Earth. The New START treaty expired on Feb. 5, 2026, ending the last agreed limits on U.S. and Russian nuclear forces.

International treaties including the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), Biological Weapons Convention (1975), Ottawa Treaty (1999), and Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) banned weapons like mustard gas, sarin, VX, anthrax, smallpox, anti-personnel ...

The Los Alamos lab in Michigan will simulate nuclear weapon experiments. Here's what you need to know about them.