Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Wright, whose agency oversees the ...

Over seven decades of nuclear weapons testing have left a toll that can no longer be dismissed as an abstract risk. A new ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...

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 ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) on Friday responded to US President Donald Trump’s recent comments suggesting Pakistan was secretly testing nuclear weapons, saying that clandestine and illegal ...