During the height of the Cold War, US pilots were on 24-hour alert and the aim was to ensure the country could launch a retaliatory strike in 15 minutes flat.
Russia recently declassified 40 minutes of unseen footage of the largest man-made explosion in the world.
Senior Homeland Security and national security officials were stunned into silence after Donnie voiced some ideas about hurricane control.
Good news everyone, Russia are claiming that they have armed a space plane with nukes. This could have some rather dire consequences.
You would expect the US nuclear launch code to be an impenetrable series of digits, numbers and symbols. It is, after all, the code that unleashes one of the most devastating weapons known to humankind.
That headline is not a joke. Last weekend, an elderly nun broke into a nuclear facility Oak Ridge, Tennessee as part of an anti-nuclear protest. The daring feat force the US government to shut down one of its “most sensitive nuclear weapons sites” and seriously reassess is security measures.
I’d forgotten that this was something people still did! That metaphorical ‘Doomsday Clock,’ that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists uses to represent the threat of nuclear war, was moved to five minutes to midnight, the closest to doomsday it’s been since North Korea’s 2007 nuclear weapons test.