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 ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, there have been efforts to limit nuclear arms. What does this treaty’s lapse mean for the ...

The United States and Russia could embark on an unrestrained nuclear arms race for the first time since the Cold War, unless ...

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

The last nuclear test was in 2017.

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 ...

It started at a Washington cocktail party, when an Air Force general listened to a mountaineer describe the view from Mount Everest — and decided the ...

Comment / The president wants to resume nuclear testing. Is he a warmonger or just an idiot? Edward Markey It would be a mistake of radioactive proportions to resume nuclear testing. None of the three ...