As tensions surge across both the Middle East and South Asia, analysts increasingly ask a stark question: if two nuclear ...

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Placing it among the world’s top five arms-buying nations, Pakistan’s weapons imports rose 66% between 2021-25 compared to 2016-20.

Saudi Arabia wants to develop its own nuclear weapons. Failing that, it wishes to partner with nuclear nations—ideally, but not only, the United States—and ingratiate itself into their nuclear ...

For more than two decades, Pakistan’s nuclear weapons have functioned as a strategic equaliser against India’s growing conventional superiority. Islamabad’s nuclear posture was never designed ...

Afghan MP-in-exile Mariam Solaimankhil said India can demand accountability for the millions of lives affected by Pakistan's ...

Although nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, as was proven when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, all rising powers want to have atomic and hydrogen bombs in their ...

On the night of February 27, the Pakistani army carried out a series of airstrikes on Afghan territory. According to ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.