Yet January 14th marked the longest period humankind has gone without one or another part of the whole exploding one of these ...

C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...

The US accused China of secret nuclear tests, banned under international agreement, that were building toward tests of larger ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...

Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump meant he when said he had instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...