The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon with a yield of 50 megatons. The explosion was ...

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume a nuclear testing program that was shuttered during the George HW Bush administration would require spending astronomical amounts of money ...

LOS ANGELES - Scientists are finding traces of radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing during the 1950s and 1960s in honey produced in the United States today. According to a study published on ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now. “I think the tests we’re ...

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had instructed the Department of War (formerly the Defense Department) to return to “nuclear testing” — although it’s ...

Where some cities fade away with time, others are deliberately erased and destroyed. Deep within Central Asia, a chilling ...