An experiment with powerful pulses of energy sent test targets flying in a step forward for planetary defense.

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

Satellite photos showing a 200-foot-wide crater at a launch site indicate that the Sarmat missile, said by the Kremlin to ...

A missile is reported to have exploded in its launch silo, leaving a massive crater and causing significant damage to the ...

Moscow has not conducted a nuclear weapons test since 1990, the year before the fall of the Soviet Union, but some Western and Russian analysts say President Vladimir Putin could order one to try ...

Russia last carried out a nuclear test in 1990 Russian think-tank wants Putin to order a test to cow West Test is possible response to missiles for Ukraine-analysts Resuming testing could spur new ...

Efforts to end nuclear tests date to 1963, when the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty ... deter the spread of nuclear weapons. Both Russia and the U.S. say ...

head of Russia’s Novaya Zemlya Central Nuclear Test Site said all was in readiness for a possible resumption of nuclear weapons tests. “The testing ground is ready to resume full-scale testing ...

The warning came days after MP Andrei Kolesnik said Putin should authorise a nuclear bomb test as a warning to the West. 'We need to carry out a nuclear explosion somewhere, at some testing ...

and the 1997 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the case of nuclear weapons. But as a “standard of appropriate behavior,” norms are not always concrete. In the nuclear order, norms can ...