VIENNA -- In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that the U.S. would resume nuclear testing, a U.S. government representative defended the stance at a global nuclear ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

It has been 33 years since an explosive US nuclear weapons test. But, on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump appeared to give the order to reinstate them "immediately". A post from the president on ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he’s ordered the Defense Department to begin testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with other countries, according to a post on his social media platform.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Trump says U.S. will restart nuclear testing, reversing decades of policy since the last test in 1992. Russia, ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

The U.S. Army is moving closer to deploying a new class of nuclear technology that could reshape how the United States ...

In recent years, Pyongyang has tested a range of increasingly advanced weapons, including solid-fueled missiles, highly ...

In 1955, the US Navy detonated a nuclear warhead deep beneath the Pacific Ocean during Operation Wigwam. The test focused on ...

From Russia’s floating reactors to China’s 100-year battery, these seven milestones shaped the global nuclear energy outlook ...

The history of North Korea's claimed nuclear tests. — -- Ahead of Vice President Mike Pence's trip to neighboring South Korea this weekend, tensions between the United States and North Korea ...