The Trinity test’s legacy endures in New Mexico as the U.S. moves to expand nuclear weapons production amid health concerns ...

The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

Nuclear weapons testing left a faint radioactive signature across every ocean on Earth, and Scottish researchers just ...

For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay ...

For decades, American nuclear weapons were associated with enormous destructive power, but military planners eventually faced ...

Biochar can store carbon in the soil and reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere—yet we still know too little ...

A batch of packaging board made at a mill on the Wabash River on August 6, 1945 came out radioactive, and the X-ray film stacked against it fogged after roughly two weeks in the box. A physicist at ...

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...

The US military has developed new strike plans that include potentially using the so-called “mother of all bombs” to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites should President Donald ...

Dutch nuclear-certified F-35A fighter jets are participating in NATO’s Steadfast Noon 2026 exercise in Italy, reinforcing the ...

In 1946, the United States began testing nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands, a tiny country in the Northwest Pacific.

Small earthquakes near North Korea's nuclear test site began weeks after the last blast in 2017 and grew more frequent for ...