Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.
Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...
North Korea reported on the drill a day after its neighbors said they detected multiple ballistic missile launches and ...
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright revealed the U.S. will not be testing nuclear explosions, putting to rest questions over whether the Trump administration would reverse a decades-old taboo. Testing will ...
Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump meant he when said he had instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear ...
Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Wright, whose agency oversees the ...
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 ...
Clarity is key on most issues relating to nuclear weapons, and testing them is no exception. America’s adversaries are carrying out low-level nuclear tests and gaining an advantage over the United ...
President Trump, during an interview that aired Sunday night on CBS's "60 Minutes," said: NORAH O'DONNELL: Less than an hour before your meeting with President Xi, you posted on social media that you ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for an assessment into whether preparations should start for full-scale nuclear tests, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. Peskov told Russian state ...
Last week, Trump announced on social media that he had ordered the Department of Defense to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons, as Russia and China—the key nuclear rivals of the U.S.—have ...