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 ...

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 ...

It has been 33 years since an explosive US nuclear weapons test. But, on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump appeared to give the order to reinstate them "immediately". A post from the president on ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would revive nuclear weapons testing — which the U.S. has not done since 1992 — left experts, lawmakers and military personnel scratching their ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

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 ...

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...

While President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would “like to see denuclearization,” his comment came on the heels of an announcement calling for nuclear testing to ramp up in the U.S. “Because of ...

Twice last week, in international and domestic affairs, President Donald Trump called for the nuclear option. Regarding U.S. politics, he used the euphemism in calling for the Senate to jettison the ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright clarified comments that were made last week by President Donald Trump on Truth Social about renewed nuclear testing during an appearance on Fox News' The Sunday Briefing.