Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

All nuclear-armed countries need to ensure that their arsenals can devastate as they’re expected to, so testing continues -- just not in a mushroom-cloud sort of way.

Russia is still escalating its nuclear threats as the war in Ukraine goes on. If a nuclear bomb were headed toward the US, residents would have fewer than 30 minutes to prepare. Actions immediately ...

The confusion rattled allies and arms control experts alike. Energy Secretary Chris Wright soon intervened to clarify that ...

President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

On the morning of April 16, 1947, a small fire began aboard the WWII-era cargo ship, the SS Grandcamp, docked in the port of ...

In a world of fractured diplomacy and rising authoritarianism, the chill of the twentieth century’s defining conflict settles ...

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Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Israel needs a 15-ton “bunker buster” bomb to destroy the last untouched nuclear facility in Iran, but only the US has one. Such a powerful weapon — the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal — is ...