Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...

On the Wednesday, January 7, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Nuclear Sponge” is a five-part project by USA TODAY ...

Nuclear experts are urging the public to demand concrete steps to reduce the risk of devastation due to nuclear weapons.

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. It remains unclear ...

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 ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Chinese military researchers recently reported that multiple nuclear strikes on a single target will produce greater damage than a single blast from a larger warhead to destroy hard ...

Thankfully, no party has used nuclear weapons in war since 1945. Treaties limiting nuclear tests and weapon inventories during the Cold War highlighted the pragmatism of world leaders. As memories ...

Stephen Herzog does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...