Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

Scientists from around the world gathered in Hiroshima in November with the aim of charting a path toward a world free of ...

The problem of defects is so big, there's even a museum of mutations at the regional medical institute back in Semey, the largest city near the old nuclear testing site. It's a small room filled with ...

This is a compact version of the specialized slide rule included in the reference book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," published by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1957 and revised in 1962. The ...

Nuclear experts are urging the public to demand concrete steps to reduce the risk of devastation due to nuclear weapons.

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President Donald Trump's order for the Pentagon to resume nuclear testing has scientists fearing the world is closer than ever to a global catastrophe. Months before Trump's decision on Wednsday, ...

The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. It remains unclear ...

The use of atomic bombs on Japan is often justified by the potential loss of Allied lives in a ground invasion and as retribution for Japanese war atrocities. The atomic blasts and subsequent ...

As a political journalist, I typically monitor about six or seven print publications and a somewhat absurd number of online ones. But I recently noticed a disturbing trend—a slew of articles with ...