FILE PHOTO: Russian President Putin observes strategic nuclear forces' exercises MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held out the possibility that Russia could resume nuclear ...

The spread of nuclear weapons and the threat of their use is creating well-founded anxiety in all parts of the world. In the face of current circumstances, it can be difficult to discern the ...

MOSCOW — Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, President Vladimir Putin's point man for arms control said on Monday after speculation that the ...

View of Yucca Mountain showing coring activities in 2006. (U.S. Department of Energy Photo) A victory by Donald Trump in November could revive America’s long-shuttered nuclear weapons testing program ...

A nuclear weapon doesn’t need to be used in war to have lasting impact. More than 2,000 such weapons were tested during the 20th century, leaving behind generational fallout that affects human beings, ...

Russia's defense minister has visited one of the Soviet Union's most famous nuclear testing sites as tensions around nuclear weapons simmer at their highest point in decades over the Ukraine war.

An ally of newly-minted president Donald Trump's is arguing that the United States should resume nuclear weapons testing to ...

Section 1. Purpose. The United States led the development of civilian nuclear power through the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Reactor Testing Station (now known as Idaho National Laboratory), ...

In the final months of his presidency, Donald Trump ordered nuclear energy to be tested on the moon by 2027, as well as the development of nuclear-powered spacecraft that would orbit the Earth, the ...

Workers pass a structure at the former Semipalatinsk nuclear bomb testing centre, 144km (90 miles) from Kurchatov, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 6, 2010 [AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko] The nuclear ...

Flattened cities, millions of people burnt to death, and yet more tortured by radioactive fallout. That harrowing future may seem outlandish to some, but only because no nation has detonated a nuclear ...