Finland plans to lift a ban on importing nuclear weapons, citing NATO membership and the need to strengthen national defense.

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI, March 13 (Reuters) - NATO member Finland does not intend to host nuclear weapons on its soil in peacetime, President Alexander Stubb said on Friday, aligning with policies ...

"The current questioning of nuclear deterrence implies something other than its withering away. There is no post-nuclear strategy. . . .[T]he nuclear instrument remains the central element in the ...

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield. But some of these innovations proved so destructive or ...

The "Cold War" nuclear weapons race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended in December 1991 with the fall of the Soviet alliance. From that date until today, the most important document regarding ...

The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis. The first half of the year will see two key events: the ...

During December 2025, the Editorial Board of the New York Times published several articles “on why the US military needs to reinvent itself.” It described the state of US military as “Overmatched,” ...

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