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 ...

Something big may have just happened in Iran. Unverified reports are claiming a major explosion near the Parchin military complex—a site long linked to Iran’s secretive nuclear weapons research. No ...

Andrew Bustamante explains that his "stance" on the subject has been "fairly consistent", and believes there remains a ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983, the B83 is a variable-yield gravity bomb with unparalleled destructive ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...