NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Annie Jacobsen, author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario," about the state of the country's nuclear weapons and how the presidential transition impacts it. Against the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Known as the nuclear "Football," this black briefcase follows the US president everywhere and contains some of the most top-secret items to authorize a nuclear ...

Within minutes, president Boris Yeltsin had been handed Moscow's "nuclear briefcase" and was monitoring the missile's progress on the terminal's screen. Had Yeltsin wished to push the infamous ...

The U.S. Department of State will host over 50 Super Bowl watch parties across six continents in support of the league's mission to bring Sunday's championship game to every corner of the globe. U ...

The Norwegian rocket incident, which took place on this day in 1995, marked the only known activation of a nuclear briefcase in response to a possible attack Laura Kiniry Seventy-five years ago ...

Former Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, whom President Vladimir Putin dismissed from office the other day, visited Shoigu on Wednesday and handed to him the so-called ‘nuclear briefcase’ as to his ...