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 ...

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over ...

President Donald Trump Thursday sowed confusion among experts with his call for the start of nuclear weapons testing, with some pundits interpreting the announcement as US preparations for a shock ...

North Korea said Sunday it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation. Pyongyang has long sought the means to ...

The U.S. successfully tested a tactical thermonuclear gravity bomb using inert warheads in August, according to a research and development arm of the Department of Energy’s (DoE) National Nuclear ...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes of light (called “transients”) that appear from nowhere and vanish just as ...

Visitors watch a video of a nuclear bomb test at the All-Russia Exhibition Centre (VDNH) in Moscow in December, 2023 - Copyright AFP/File Eduardo Leal Visitors watch ...