Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement that the U.S. will resume testing nuclear weapons has alarmed some nuclear-arms experts. It shouldn’t. President Trump had already announced earlier ...

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, eager to project strength, have ...

There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

US intelligence agencies believe that China is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons and has conducted at least one covert explosive test in recent years as part of a broader push to ...

The ongoing conflict between the US and Iran has raised suspicions about potential nuclear tests by the United States, ...

The United States is ready to carry out low-yield nuclear tests to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, ending a decades-old moratorium, a senior official said Tuesday. New START, the ...

The U.S. government revealed new intelligence on Tuesday suggesting China may have conducted an illicit nuclear test back on June 22, 2020. A small earthquake, measuring just 2.75 in magnitude, was ...

Eighty eminent and expert members of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) have denounced President Trump’s threatened return to nuclear testing. The ...

Was President Trump’s recent directive to resume U.S. nuclear testing — after a hiatus of 33 years — an actual policy decision? Or was it a political stunt to project toughness? His surprise ...