President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that the United States would resume testing of nuclear weapons, ending a 33-year moratorium in place since 1992. The announcement, coming just before a ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced on his social media site that the “process will begin immediately” to resume testing of nuclear weapons. “Absolutely not. I’ll be introducing legislation ...

There is no good place to be when a nuclear bomb goes off. Anything too close is instantly vaporized, and radiation can pose a serious health threat even at a distance. In between, there is another ...

WASHINGTON — Democratic senators representing states that bore the brunt of the fallout from explosive nuclear weapons testing are seeking to pass legislation that would bar President Donald Trump ...

Experts warn that resumption of full nuclear weapons tests is unnecessary and would undermine the United States' efforts to discourage other nations from testing their own nukes. (Tech. Sgt. Draeke ...

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects US nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual warhead tests for now. “I think the tests we’re talking about right ...

Recent claims by President Donald Trump that Pakistan is covertly conducting nuclear weapons tests have reignited a debate over seismic activity in the volatile region of Balochistan, the site of the ...

The U.S. nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Mar. 1, 1954. Nowadays, nuclear “tests” are done via computers or laboratory scale experiments and do not ...