Experts are having a nuclear meltdown. Cracks in a dome over a contaminated nuclear blast site have sparked fears that the ...

The Runit Dome, aka "The Tomb", soon after it was built in 1980. (Public Domain) A gaping hole was left on a small island in the Pacific Ocean when the United States military released an 18-kiloton ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump ...

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 ...

The United States has accused China of conducting a covert nuclear explosive test in 2020, a charge that lands at a moment when the last major arms control agreements are fraying. The allegation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The long moratorium has ...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement that the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons has alarmed some nuclear-arms experts. It shouldn’t. President Trump had already announced earlier ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on a controversial 1969 nuclear test in western Garfield County. The first story appeared in Sunday’s Aspen Daily News. Jay Cowan and Judy Haas — ...

Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump meant he when said he had instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear ...