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

Pickaxe is a heavily fortified facility deep underground that would be difficult to penetrate even with powerful 'bunker ...

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

The U.S. has a 123 agreement with Saudi Arabia’s regional neighbor, the United Arab Emirates, though in the 2009 deal it ...

A deal like this has been in the works for years. Experts fear it could spark a new arms race.

"We'll be hitting that area pretty soon, and very heavily," President Donald Trump said about Iran's underground nuclear ...

On 9 July 1962, during one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, the United States carried out one of the most ...

Atomic weapons are an extinction-level threat, so you’d ideally want a steady hand guiding U.S. nuclear policy. Instead, we have Donald Trump—and boy has he made the past two days tense. Yesterday, ...

Saudi Arabia has reasons to pursue a civil nuclear programme. Sweltering summers strain its grid; it burns crude oil to meet ...

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

Federal officials have cleared a major production milestone for the newest variant of the ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...