In the 80 years since the U.S. attacks on Japan, no other country has used a nuclear weapon in war. That remarkable record could soon be broken and all progress lost.

The first problem is the tendency to paint U.S. presidents in extremes—either as messianic figures (like Kennedy and Obama) or as cartoon ... for a three-way nuclear arms race with Russia ...

UNITED NATIONS--Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States and Japan calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space, calling it ...