"You know what? The Moon's big enough that we can nuke it and land on it at the same time, so let's give this a shot." In 1958, the U.S. government plotted to show up the Soviets in the Space Race — ...

A physicist labors to build a DIY nuclear weapon in a cartoon from a newly declassified Cold War era ... Project,” a Cold War era experiment involving a DIY nuclear weapons project.

In the 1950s, nuclear weapons were regularly detonated aboveground to see what the effects would be on people and buildings ...

Even before the Soviet Union tested its first atomic weapon in 1949, American security officials began secret studies of the threat from a smuggled bomb. This early assessment by the Central ...

A Cold War nuclear missile will remain in service for a total of 94 years thanks to a US$383 million US Navy contract, with Lockheed Martin to modernize the submarine-launched Trident II missile and ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (KOLO) - A bill that would expand existing legislation that supports Nevadans harmed by Cold War-era nuclear weapons testing has passed. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act ...

How many nuclear weapons exist in the stockpiles of the ... Hruby cautioned against taking the wrong lessons from the Cold War's decades-long arms race. Although Moscow built more nuclear warheads ...

The former head of Ukraine’s military intelligence recalls how thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were removed from its ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.