"Peace is the only defense against nuclear war." There was one more Operation Alert in 1961. The young mothers managed to bring together two-and-a-half-thousand protesters. That year civil ...

Some employees at the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the U.S.’ nuclear weapons, were reportedly summoned back to work after being laid off last week.

US Air Force and from the US Strategic Command officials have said there are no immediate plans to put nuclear bombers on 24-hour alert. Questions about plans for US bombers came after a Defense ...

In contrast to the U.S.’s desultory interest in civil defense, the Soviet Union is well advanced on a thoroughgoing program to protect its people against nuclear attack. The Soviet government ...