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Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites and kills top generals. Iran retaliates with missile barrages. By The Associated Press Updated June 13, 2025, 11:54 p.m.
Iran will not retaliate further against the United States's strikes on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program or pursue nuclear “militarization,” according to one of the country’s top ...
This series of articles examines why today’s nuclear landscape is more complicated and, in many ways, more precarious than during the Cold War.
How a nuclear attack on the U.S. might unfold, step by step The American reaction to an attack is classified, but details made public paint a harrowing picture.
Iran still has what it needs to build a nuclear weapon despite Trump’s airstrikes, and military hardliners are poised to gain greater control.
A week of shifting descriptions of Iran attack spark ongoing questions about extent of damage and goals A week later, it's unclear whether nuclear material was moved beforehand.
Operation Midnight Hammer, the airstrike that took out two of Iran’s most hardened nuclear facilities was not the result of a last-minute decision but the culmination of fifteen years of ...
The strikes potentially hardened Kim Jong Un’s determination to hold on to—and expand—his nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to any attack on North Korea.
Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?
Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” Wednesday after passing a bill to suspend cooperation with the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog group.
Trump says U.S. strikes "obliterated" key Iranian nuclear sites, setting the program back decades, but sources say an early intel assessment says Iran could rebuild some of its capabilities in months.
The United States joined Israel’s bombing campaign of Iran’s nuclear program. A clear picture of the damage inside Iran—and the state of its nuclear strength—is still unfolding.