The United States remains the world's leading operator of nuclear submarines, including fast-attack, ballistic-missile, and guided-missile types. However, the most significant shift in the undersea ...

Nuclear submarines look like ships on the surface, but underwater the physics changes completely. This breaks down how they control buoyancy and stability, navigate without GPS, run on silent electric ...

With the 09IIIB class and future 09V class, China’s development of nuclear-powered (and nuclear capable) submarines is at an ...

Experts warn the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start ...

The global operational fleet of nuclear-powered submarines remains dominated by a handful of military powers, according to data from Statista. As of January 2026, the United States operates the ...

The last remaining nuclear treaty between the U.S. and Russia has expired, ending decades of arms control between the two ...

The rest of the North Korean navy consists of ten elderly frigates and corvettes. Another one of these was converted into a mine sweeper. The remainder of the fleet consists of about a hundred patrol ...

The expiration of the last remaining nuclear treaty between the United States and Russia on Thursday has sparked fears about ...

For the first time in over 50 years, there are no nuclear arms controls in place between the world’s two largest nuclear ...

At its current production rates, China is likely to have a far more menacing submarine force than Russia in short order—though its quality is still uncertain.

Shortly before lunchtime on Oct 30 1961, a Soviet plane flying above the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya dropped the most powerful nuclear bomb ever created.