Cold War firearms shaped modern infantry tactics by pushing combat decision-making down to the squad level. The AK-47 and M16 standardized assault rifle doctrine worldwide by prioritizing reliability ...

David Holloway, a Stanford University-based but Dublin-born historian of the nuclear age, is more cautious about how ...

Artillery has been called “the god of war” for good reason. From the thunder of cannons in the Great War to the deep, rolling booms of Cold War behemoths, these weapons have shaped history one ...

Throughout history, technological innovation has pushed the limits of what humans can build, whether on the battlefield, in science, or in everyday life. Some inventions changed the world for the ...

Achieving a world free of nuclear weapons is “one of the most crucial debates of our time,” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared Tuesday. He emphasized that the international tide of ...

International treaties including the Chemical Weapons Convention (1997), Biological Weapons Convention (1975), Ottawa Treaty (1999), and Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) banned weapons like ...

With arms control agreements collapsing and arsenals expanding, the risk of nuclear war – deliberate or accidental – is ...

The United States is currently producing more nuclear weapons than at any point since the end of the Cold War, AzerNEWS ...