Happy endings aren't guaranteed when it comes to movies, but some go particularly far in feeling hopeless, like Das Boot and Dancer in the Dark.

The war movie that ends with one of the funniest end-of-the-world moments arrived 42 years ago, and it still is a biting ...

After the Cold War ended, our terror of nuclear war faded from the screen. Now it’s resurgent — and more fatalistic than ever ...

Britons might be surprised to learn how much hatred their country receives from Russia - with threats of nuclear obliteration now a common occurrence ...

The first Bond film features Honey Ryder’s (Ursula Andress) legendary entrance out of the ocean (the white bikini, the seashell), and introduced two key recurring players: Bond’s beleaguered boss M ...

LONDON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of treaties to keep the arms race from spiralling out of ...

If you like your Cold War history shaken, not stirred, check out the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History’s 2026 Spyglass Festival. The three-day event, which begins Thursday, Jan. 15, will ...

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of its famous Doomsday Clock will move closer to midnight. It feels like a ...

Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small weapons system. It could fly stealthily into enemy territory, not being mistaken for a bomber or any kind of missile. And then it could detonate a nuclear weapon ...

The United States’ unprecedented aerial raid on Venezuela and the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro shattered a long-standing – if imperfect – norm of the post–World War II international order. The ...

Thanks to Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. for raising the “not serious” flag on Kathryn Bigelow’s soap-opera movie, “A House of Dynamite.” Col. José M. López ably details how the film misunderstands the ...

The United States operates the most robust fleet of nuclear reactors in the world. With 94 reactors across 54 power plants, the U.S. generates roughly 97 gigawatts (GW) of nuclear power, significantly ...