During the Cold War, the term strategic forces referred to nuclear weapons deployed on strategic delivery systems: intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

Brinkmanship, a technique rooted in psychological manipulation, operates on the premise that individuals are risk-averse and ...

Iran’s government seems to be welcoming decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian ...

There’s nothing wrong with resetting bad relations between rivals, so long as any reset is grounded in geopolitical reality.

First-strike capability refers to the ability to launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack in the hope ... "If [China is] gonna play this game, we ought to impose very significant costs and maybe ...

The war games are set to coincide with the inauguration ... Joe Biden had been presented with options for a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities to thwart the potential development of an atomic ...

However, the Taliban’s Ministry of Defence argued that the strike also ... kidnap Pakistani nuclear scientists, loot uranium to make 'dirty bombs'; their demand… Great game in Afghanistan ...

In October 2019, Russia engaged in what was apparently its largest announced strategic nuclear strike exercise in its history, Thunder (Grom)–2019. The exercise had many of the usual features of ...