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

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 ...

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 ...

The US looks set to deploy its Cold War heavy bombers to Iran as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth warned that Tuesday would mark the fiercest attacks of the war so far. Even after 70 years of service ...

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 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 ...

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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