The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a ...

US President Donald Trump has revealed on social media that he has instructed the Pentagon (now known as the Department of War) to resume nuclear weapons testing in the United States for the first ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world’s first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation. Weeks later, ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

President Trump says he’s instructed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time in over 30 years. Citing China and Russia, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, “Because of ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...