Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) (U.S. Atomic Energy ...

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume a nuclear testing program that was shuttered during the George HW Bush administration would require spending astronomical amounts of money ...

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security issues for Times Opinion. Hours before meeting President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, President Trump made a confounding proclamation: He wanted the ...

US President Donald Trump has revealed on social media that he has instructed the Pentagon (now known as the Department of War) to resume nuclear weapons testing in the United States for the first ...

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...

President Donald Trump has called on US military leaders to resume testing nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as Russia and China. "Because of other countries testing ...

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 ...

Discussing nuclear weapons earlier this month, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said the nation “is committed to peaceful development, follows a policy of ‘no first use’ of nuclear ...

A ghost of the Cold War is rising between the world’s superpowers, just in time for Halloween. In the wake of Russian President Vladimir Putin bragging about his country testing both a nuclear-powered ...

Experts warn that resumption of full nuclear weapons tests is unnecessary and would undermine the United States' efforts to discourage other nations from testing their own nukes. (Tech. Sgt. Draeke ...

The F-35 program cost $1.7T but early deployments exposed low readiness rates and immature software. The Zumwalt destroyer cost over $4B per ship but its main gun became unusable due to $1M per round ...