Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme that exposed thousands of people to radiation over decades. The islands of ...

A strong 5.2 quake rattling the ground near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant would be alarming in any week. Coming just as Washington and Tehran edge toward a direct clash over nuclear sites, it has ...

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

Discover the dramatic story behind the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. This video explores its Cold ...

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 ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was the ...

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to ...

Danny Kemp with Sebastian Smith in Washington AFP Oct 31, 2025 Oct 31, 2025 Updated Nov 1, 2025 President Donald Trump reiterated Friday that he wants testing of US nuclear weapons, but again failed ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the Trump-ordered nuclear weapons tests will not involve explosions of any kind. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...