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

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

ANALYSTS HERE and abroad generally agreed that North Korea’s second nuclear test last week was aiming at two things – recognition of its nuclear power status by the international community, and ...

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s ...

In a particularly heated moment from his first term, Trump taunted North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — whose 2017 underground test is the last known example of explosive nuclear testing — for the relative ...

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 ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea said it conducted a “higher level” nuclear test explosion on Friday that will allow it to finally build an array of stronger, smaller and lighter nuclear weapons.

In 1955, the US Navy detonated a nuclear warhead deep beneath the Pacific Ocean during Operation Wigwam. The test focused on ...

As Iran’s nuclear program advances, the critical question of whether Tehran would need to conduct nuclear tests to ensure its weapons are effective looms over the consciousness of the international ...

On Wednesday, Jan. 7, Duke Energy will conduct its first siren test of 2026 at each of its six nuclear power plants, ...

President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. “We’ve halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it’s ...