Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

This documentary examines five moments when nuclear weapons were nearly launched due to errors, miscommunication, or system ...

The United States is to resume nuclear weapons testing “immediately”, Donald Trump has announced, raising fears of renewed proliferation between the world’s two biggest stockpiles of atomic weaponry.

Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

This article appeared in History of War magazine issue 152. CIA analysts gathered around U-2 spy plane photographs taken of Cuban military facilities. With horror, they realised they had just ...

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 ...