Visible cracks on the concrete cap of the Runit Dome, a Cold War era nuclear waste repository on Enewetak Atoll in the ...

The US tested a doomsday ballistic missile off the California coast Tuesday night — as war raged in the Middle East. The ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from cancer and other diseases over time, according to a new report delving into ...

Over seven decades of nuclear weapons testing have left a toll that can no longer be dismissed as an abstract risk. A new global assessment links roughly 4,000,000 early deaths to about 2,400 test ...

Amid escalating tensions around the world, the United States has demonstrated the readiness and dependability of its strategic deterrent with ...

Earlier this month, the New START treaty, a strategic-arms reduction agreement between Russia and the United States to limit their nuclear arsenal, expired. That accord was the last in a series of ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...

The US military conducted nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in July 1946 - Copyright US Defense Nuclear Agency/AFP - The US military conducted ...