In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, a U.S.

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

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(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

US President Donald Trump landed back in Washington Thursday after a surprise directive to begin nuclear weapons testing that raised the specter of renewed superpower tensions. The announcement on ...

In a November 5 meeting of the Security Council of Russia, President Vladimir Putin directed his military and political leaders to “submit coordinated proposals on the possible first steps focusing on ...

A Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighter from the US Air Force (USAF) test dropped multiple inert versions of a nuclear bomb in August. The USA’s Sandia National Laboratories, a Honeywell subsidiary ...

US intelligence shows a "genuine possibility" that North Korea could conduct a ballistics test or nuclear test during the visit, the White House said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an assessment into whether preparations should start for full-scale nuclear tests, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov told Russian state ...