Nuclear-armed states continue to modernize their arsenals, with France—a major U.S. military ally in NATO—recently test-firing an upgraded but unarmed nuclear missile. The medium-range, air-to-surface ...

EXCLUSIVE: Rachid Bouchareb’s upcoming feature film Reggane, exploring France’s controversial nuclear tests in Algeria’s Sahara Desert in the early 1960s, has sparked interest out of the U.S. and Asia ...

The U.S. nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Mar. 1, 1954. Nowadays, nuclear “tests” are done via computers or laboratory scale experiments and do not ...

Documents suggest campaign to discredit revelation that tests contaminated many more people than acknowledged France’s Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) has spent tens of thousands of euros in an effort ...

How Far Will Experimenting on the Unborn Go? The War on Christmas (Eating, Drinking, Fun) Since we discussed the matter on the latest episode of The Editors, the Trump administration’s confusing ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Erin D. Dumbacher is Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Donald Trump ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...