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

Triangles mark seismometers used to study the Oct. 5, 2024, earthquake, along with two similar events identified by the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization. The 2015 event shares a nearly ...

Robert Peters is a Senior Research Fellow for Strategic Deterrence in Heritage’s Allison Center for National Security. There are important reasons why the United States may want to restart nuclear ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky for hundreds of miles. By Nicholas Slayton Published Feb 10, 2025 8:07 AM EST During ...

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 ...

Nuclear weapons are scarcely mentioned in the U.S. 2024 political campaign nor in campaign media coverage. These costly and grotesque machines would seem non-existent on the election trail. Yet, ...

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MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

A research project is being launched by the Polish Economic Institute to gauge the interest of Polish companies in participating in the construction of the country's first nuclear power plant. (Image: ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

A new, quietly-released study showed that small nuclear reactors could present “substantial opportunities” for Indiana to meet its energy demands, and identified eight current or former coal sites ...