During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

US President Donald Trump urges nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China, saying that the world has more than enough ...

A new map has shown the range of Russia's most powerful nuclear weapons as tensions between Moscow ... This would amount to World War Three." Marina Akhmedova, editor-in-chief of Russia's Regnum ...

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 ...

He spent much of his first presidency shredding the last vestiges of Cold War-era treaties and norms that had kept nuclear weapons in check for decades. Total global nukes peaked in 1986 at around ...

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 ...

Production of nuclear weapons largely stalled out after the frenzied build-up of the Cold War era. As countries worked to slim down their warhead stockpiles, there was no need to keep factories ...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off about 1,200 to 2,000 workers at the Department of Energy, ...

A nuclear bunker, constructed in the 1950s amidst Cold War anxieties, is set to go under the hammer with a guide price of £150,000. The Grade II listed war room and bunker are situated on the ...

In 2022, samples from a Sahara dust storm showed that radioactivity from nuclear tests 70 years ago still drifts around ...