WASHINGTON (AP) — The most important — and mysterious — “football” in the world isn't really a football at all. Officially called the “ Presidential Emergency Satchel, ” the “nuclear football” is a ...

After a retired CIA analyst claimed Donald Trump asked for the nuclear codes in a fiery White House meeting on Iran, experts ...

Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Paradise Episode 7. With a world-ending flashback and plenty of revelations ...

As a 32-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where I commanded a B-1 bomber squadron and a nuclear mission wing, I have dedicated my career to the study of nuclear weapons and their profound gravity. I ...

The mysterious briefcase shown in Paradise might look like something designed purely for dramatic television, but the reality behind it is far more unsettling. The so-called nuclear football is not ...

Why did the U.S. military play a football game in Nagasaki just months after the atomic bombing? The second atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki in August 1945 has become known as "the forgotten bomb." ...

Premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS+ A timely film by an award-winning director on the long-forgotten U.S. military all-star game in Nagasaki on Jan. 1, ...