After the first Soviet nuclear detonation in 1949, Moscow pushed hard to create a more practical and efficient weapon. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some believe Donald Trump has been engaging in nuclear sabre-rattling intended to intimidate China - Alex Brandon/AP The United ...

An atomic blast codenamed ESS was detonated on March 23, 1955, at the Nevada Test Site north of Las Vegas. It was a different ...

A DF-17 road-mobile medium-range ballistic missile is seen during a military parade in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on September 3, 2025. China may want to develop new nuclear warheads for its ...

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 ...

A senior U.S. official offered new details Tuesday night about an alleged nuclear bomb test conducted by China in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw spoke at a Hudson Institute ...