US intelligence agencies believe that China is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons and has conducted at least one covert explosive test in recent years as part of a broader push to ...

Does a video show a nuclear test carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran? No, that's not true: The video clip shows a nuclear test in the Nevada desert in 1957. The ...

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, eager to project strength, have ...

It might not have as reverent a name as the Trinity Test or a litany of films made about it. But Project Gnome, a 1961 explosive nuclear test conducted near Carlsbad, is a relic of a bygone era in New ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs The ...

President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons after a 33-year pause, announcing the move on social media just ahead of meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping in ...

President Donald Trump says the U.S. plans to restart nuclear weapons testing for the first time in more than 30 years, a move experts fear could raise global tensions and disrupt the nuclear balance ...

India on Friday said it has taken note of US President Donald Trump’s comment on Pakistan’s nuclear testing, asserting that “clandestine and illegal nuclear activities are in keeping with Pakistan’s ...

Eighty eminent and expert members of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) have denounced President Trump’s threatened return to nuclear testing. The ...

There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...