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 ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

VIENNA -- In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that the U.S. would resume nuclear ...

VIENNA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, said on Thursday that any explosive nuclear weapon test would be harmful for global ...

The U.S. nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Mar. 1, 1954. Nowadays, nuclear “tests” are done via computers or laboratory scale experiments and do not ...

The morning after President Donald Trump vowed to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons,” his pick to lead U.S. Strategic Command fielded questions from senators who wondered what the president meant and ...

Trump’s security policies cling tenaciously to crumbling architectures of belligerent nationalism. As a time-urgent example, chaotic disintegration is being boosted by US postures in the Middle East, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump says U.S. will restart nuclear testing, reversing decades of policy since the last test in 1992. Russia, ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs The ...

Faster, stealthier missiles, accelerated weapons development, and the threat of an unrestrained nuclear arms race, set ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the Trump-ordered nuclear weapons tests will not involve explosions of any kind. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” ...