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.

From expiring treaties to AI-accelerated warfare, the guardrails that once limited nuclear risk are rapidly disappearing, Dr. Ira Helfand writes.

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 ...

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

Rationality is one of the central themes of Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age. People gravitate toward an either/or view of this trait, to wit: you’re either rational or you’re irrational. It’s not ...

WASHINGTON, DC-Pakistan emerged as a central nuclear proliferation concern in private talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush, according to newly released ...

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 ...

As the Iran war boils with the US and Israeli strikes, Pakistan’s defence pact with Saudi Arabia has come under the lens. After Iranian drone attacks on Saudi soil, Islamabad’s warnings to Tehran and ...

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 ...

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...