North Korea’s primary nuclear test site was built deep inside a mountain designed to contain massive underground explosions. After six nuclear tests, including a powerful detonation in 2017, seismic ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

Between 1945 and 2017, more than 2,400 nuclear devices were detonated in tests conducted by nuclear powers across multiple continents.

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

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Two concurrent nuclear explosions over a US town were narrowly averted on January 24, 1961.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered officials on Wednesday to submit proposals for a possible resumption of nuclear tests in response to President Donald Trump’s statements last ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...