Nuclear weapons policy, once thought to be a relic of the Cold War, increasingly has come to the fore as Russia has made ...

The conclusion of World War II came with a daunting choice that forever changed history: the use of atomic bombs on Japan. But few know this fact: there was a third atomic bomb, perhaps bound for a ...

Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably ...

On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear weapon in history. The world had ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions ...

As many as 19 people are missing and feared dead after a “devastating blast” leveled a Tennessee bomb factory Friday, according to officials. The massive explosion was reported around 7:45 a.m. local ...

All 18 people missing after a devastating blast leveled a Tennessee bomb factory are presumed dead, officials said Saturday. “They’ve gone through almost every square inch of this facility. We have ...

There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but Trump offered few details about what seemed to be a ...

The W88, estimated to yield 455 kilotons of TNT explosives, is one of the most powerful nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, and is carried on Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

“There’s nothing to describe. It’s gone,” said Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis of the explosion site, where 16 people died Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Accurate Energetic Systems was opened in 1980 and has more than 1,300 acres in Hickman County. The Oct. 10 explosion happened in the Melt Pour building where bombs are made. The 8-building campus is ...