President Donald J. Trump has been unequivocal and consistent for decades: Iran will never be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon. This position ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

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 ...

For the first time in more than half a century, there are no limits on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals. The sole remaining nuclear arms treaty in the world, known as New START, is expiring ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) (U.S. Atomic Energy ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age with the discovery of nuclear fission and the subsequent development of the atomic bomb under J. Robert Oppenheimer, humanity has grappled with a weapon capable of ...

If one follows his statements alone, President Trump’s position on nuclear weapons is confusing, to put it mildly. In February of this year he told a group of reporters the following: “There’s no ...

The United States military has moved nuclear weapons to British soil for the first time in close to two decades, new analysis indicates. Open-source analysts identified an aircraft taking off from the ...