During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...
Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.
This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of ...
Russia launched an Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile, which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, as part of a large ...
The Nuclear Age will appeal to a broad audience, both newcomers to the topic and those who are conversant but not academic ...
Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over ...
On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...
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 ...
VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...
Oct 30 (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 ...