"Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union hung over humanity — and occasionally the superpowers edged toward the brink, as with the Cuban missile crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin held "constructive" talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin ...

COMMENT: Steve Witkoff - the president’s international diplomatic Mr Fixit - has failed to bring peace to the Middle East or ...