Iran’s New Leader Is More Open to Pursuing a Nuclear Weapon, U.S. Intelligence Says

The previous supreme leader, who was killed early in the war, had renounced nuclear weapons. U.S. spy agencies believe his ...

What's the difference between a nuclear reactor and nuclear weapon?

Nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons serve wildly different purposes, but the there's a lot more that separates them than ...
19FortyFive on MSNOpinion

Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal answers the one threat that could end the country. It answers almost nothing else.

The argument about Israel's bomb usually asks whether a small, exposed state is right to keep an arsenal it has never ...

How Saudi Arabia Getting a Nuclear Bomb Would Spark a Middle East Arms Race

A former Saudi diplomat told Newsweek of a potential "domino effect" that could result in a "multipolar nuclear Middle East." ...
Scientific American

Iran was nowhere close to a nuclear bomb, experts say

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Israel, the only Middle East nuclear weapons power, fears US-Saudi deal

A former Israeli nuclear official told Newsweek that Saudi Arabia appeared to be "keeping the nuclear weapons option open." ...
Popular Mechanics

61 Years Ago, the U.S. Lost a 1-Kiloton Nuclear Bomb. It’s Still at the Bottom of the Ocean.

It was supposed to be a routine exercise. Perhaps an odd phrase to use when describing the handling of nuclear weapons, but during the Vietnam War, it was standard procedure to regularly load and ...