Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.
On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time ...
Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...
A Princeton University simulation shows how a single low-yield nuclear weapon could rapidly spiral into a full-scale ...
During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...
On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...
Rising threats are prompting some politicians in Japan, the only nation attacked with nuclear weapons, to reconsider its ...
Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Pentagon realized that deploying megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe the ...
A senior government official who advises Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on security expressed a personal opinion that Japan should have nuclear weapons, according to local media reports.