Communities and servicemen have long argued they were harmed by fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons tests – but the UK ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, ...

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 ...

The testing of nuclear weapons is suddenly a major topic of discussion after being largely dormant for three decades. Last week, Russia tested a nuclear-powered missile, but did not detonate an actual ...

About a year into my field research in Kazakhstan, I went to the city of Kurchatov, once the secret command center of the Soviet nuclear program, to make some photocopies. On the ground floor of an ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Russian defense minister Andrey Belousov said it is appropriate to "immediately" prepare for "full-scale" nuclear tests ...

When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.