Yet January 14th marked the longest period humankind has gone without one or another part of the whole exploding one of these ...

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

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.

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People perform for North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a celebration for nuclear scientists and engineers who contributed to a ...