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

Even at the height of their Cold War nuclear rivalry, the United States and the Soviet Union thrashed out a series of ...

A Princeton University simulation shows how a single low-yield nuclear weapon could rapidly spiral into a full-scale ...

The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, a loyal ally of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, has warned President Donald Trump that the U.S. handing subsonic Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would mean ...

The thought of nuclear war feels like something pulled from a Cold War documentary or a dystopian movie — not a real possibility. But experts, defense analysts, and national security planners still ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly possible. A missile is fired during a US and South Korea joint training exercise ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

As a peace and disarmament activist for over four decades, I was conflicted about whether to see “A House of Dynamite,” director Katherine Bigelow’s and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim’s new fictional ...

Donald Trump has trampled on another taboo, and it’s a good thing. The president said in a Truth Social post that the United States will begin “immediately” testing our “Nuclear Weapons” on “an equal ...

The arrival of director Kathryn Bigelow’s highly anticipated nuclear war thriller “A House of Dynamite” (in theaters and on Netflix now) heralds the return of a long-forgotten genre: the cautionary ...