The weapon is the most recent iteration of the Poseidon, a nuclear-powered super torpedo named after the Greek god of the sea ...

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...

Nevadans should not expect to see mushroom clouds in the desert after President Donald Trump’s message that he wants to see nuclear testing resume immediately. “No worries about that,” said Chris ...

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 ...

Installation view of "the bomb" by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser, Pioneer Works (all images courtesy Pioneer Works; photo by Dan Bradica) "If we believe that the spread of nuclear weapons is ...

A Japanese government official's remark to reporters that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has caused a major backlash.

Eighty years later, American Catholic bishops visited Japan to demand nuclear disarmament—and called for political leaders to ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...