Who deserves nuclear bombs? The answer is whoever feels threatened enough, and has the means and knowledge to build them.

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 ...

China opportunistically exploited the conflict between India and Pakistan earlier this year to conduct the first real-world combat test of several weapons systems supplied to Islamabad, a US ...

Placing it among the world’s top five arms-buying nations, Pakistan’s weapons imports rose 66% between 2021-25 compared to 2016-20.

The work done by a small Iranian suicide drone in Saudi Arabia may draw Pakistan, a country thousands of kilometres away, to ...

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 ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...