Who deserves nuclear bombs? The answer is whoever feels threatened enough, and has the means and knowledge to build them.

Despite the alliance, analysts believe Pakistan is unlikely to enter the war, as extending a nuclear umbrella to Saudi Arabia would complicate global nonproliferation treaties and escalate regional ...

Placing it among the world’s top five arms-buying nations, Pakistan’s weapons imports rose 66% between 2021-25 compared to 2016-20.

Study finds Australia and New Zealand would be only countries to survive nuclear war that could wipe out five billion people ...

The work done by a small Iranian suicide drone in Saudi Arabia may draw Pakistan, a country thousands of kilometres away, to ...

China opportunistically exploited the conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year to conduct the first real-world combat test of several weapons systems supplied to Islamabad, a US ...

Afghan MP-in-exile Mariam Solaimankhil said India can demand accountability for the millions of lives affected by Pakistan's ...

Saudi Arabia wants to develop its own nuclear weapons. Failing that, it wishes to partner with nuclear nations—ideally, but not only, the United States—and ingratiate itself into their nuclear ...

Although nuclear weapons are extremely destructive, as was proven when the US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, all rising powers want to have atomic and hydrogen bombs in their ...

The new security partnership between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan—likely including a nuclear deterrent for Riyadh—illustrates the mercenary nature of Islamabad’s foreign policy. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.