RAF Lakenheath is reported to have received US nuclear weapons in the summer — is the UK complicit in Washington's nuclear escalation?

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

The world’s nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, a think tank has said. A new arms race is emerging after decades of reductions in the ...

With or without Iran, the number of nuclear states could double, raising the risk of catastrophe. June 25, 2025 at 7:45 a.m. EDTJust now For 80 years, the United States has invested enormous effort in ...

In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The global security environment is deteriorating as America’s adversaries are ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. The United States and South Korea face increasingly dangerous threats in China ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the summer of 1974, Richard Nixon was under great strain and drinking too much. During a White House ...