People throughout the Canadian province of Ontario awoke to an emergency alert warning of an “incident” at a nuclear plant near Toronto, only to be told later that the message was a mistake. The ...

As of early March 2026, global tensions are notably high, with the US military's DEFCON status fluctuating between Levels 3 and 4, indicating significant concern but not full wartime alert.

Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...

[Associated Press, Herald Times, 8 April] A security alert was recently triggered at Point Beach nuclear power plant after a conversation in a convenience store. A 23-year-old man was lost on his way ...

BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. — The U.S. Air Force is preparing to put nuclear-armed bombers back on 24-hour ready alert, a status not seen since the Cold War ended in 1991. That means the ...

The U.S. Air Force’s recent statements about the B-52 bomber’s nuclear role need to be understood in terms of both current capability and potential surge capacity. Public reporting indicates that, as ...