The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has emailed the Pentagon out of hours and the defense ministry in Beijing for comment.

China's nuclear arsenal expansion challenges U.S. deterrence capabilities as Beijing builds weapons capable of reaching American ships, bases and allies by 2030.

China's been steadily upgrading its submarine fleet and weapons to detect those of the US should the two nations go to war.

Trump's subsequent push for trilateral "denuclearisation" talks involving China elicited a firm refusal from Beijing, underscoring challenges to extending the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) amid fears of a fresh nuclear arms race, analysts ...

New analysis warns the U.S. nuclear force designed in 2010 cannot handle current global threats and proposes massive expansion including forward deployment to Europe.

Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base is about 1,200 miles from an old Chinese nuclear test range, but controlling the base would require the reentry of U.S. personnel into Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON -- China is rapidly increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal and could have as many as 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, according to a new Pentagon report released Wednesday. The development comes on the heels of China's recent test of a ...

According to a US Department of Defense report released last year on China’s military power, Beijing possessed more than 600 operational nuclear warheads as of last year and is projected to have more than 1,000 by 2030.

At an August meeting with South Korea’s president, Trump again expressed his vision for drawing down U.S., China and Russia nuclear stockpiles. A few days later, the Chinese foreign ministry balked at this goal. Trump reportedly has been talking to China ...

Audio clip A short time ago, an American aeroplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of TNT. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe.

Early this year, legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate introduced resolutions that call upon the U.S. government to lead

Once again, nuclear power seemed hopeless, at least in the U.S. Yet over the same period, China built 13 similar reactors, with 33 more underway. And Beijing’s nuclear ambitions are global. China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power,