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Nuclear weapons tests: The physics that makes them so hard to hide

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...
Rolling Stone

The Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Tests

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 ...
CNN

Good news: World records longest ever lull in nuclear tests. Bad news: It’s on shaky ground

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. “As of today, the ...
Science News

If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

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 ...
The New York Times

The Forgotten Nuclear Weapon Tests That Trump May Seek to Revive

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...
The New York Times

Newly Unbound, Trump Weighs More Nuclear Arms and Underground Tests

It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty ...