Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

After Hiroshima, America didn’t just build bigger bombs — it built smaller ones. In this chilling Cold War story, we explore ...

" We The People" focuses on Iowan Harley Wilhelm. He is the Iowa State chemistry professor who helped stop a world war and ...

Germany hasn't had an indigenous nuclear weapons program since 1945 and nobody in Berlin is asking for a German bomb. So why ...

In the freezing darkness of February 1950, a US B-36 bomber on a training mission began to fail over Canada. With three engines dead and ice dragging the massive aircraft down, Captain Harold Barry ...

On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the nuclear age.

We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.

A desert site about 65 miles north of Las Vegas had been selected for nuclear weapons testing. It was 1953 and 11 atomic bomb detonations took place here between March and June as part of Operation ...

Kunihiko Iida, an atomic bomb survivor and volunteer guide for the iconic exhibition hall best known as the Atomic Bomb Dome, speaks to foreign visitors on July 9, in Hiroshima, western Japan.

U.S. lawmakers cautioned against ushering in a nuclear arms race in the Middle East after the United States and Saudi Arabia ...

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...

There are no rows of white crosses along the Satsuma Peninsula or victory memorials dotting Kagoshima Bay. No markers at beaches on Kyushu bearing names of American car brands — Buick, Cadillac, Stutz ...