Given the totality of energy production, nuclear energy is very safe, but when things go wrong, they go very wrong as ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

Deep beneath the remote Aleutian Islands lies a scar from the peak of the Cold War that remains one of the most significant ...

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap — a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

One expert says explosive nuclear testing would be 'alarming.' President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is ordering the United States to resume nuclear testing, leaving experts wondering ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...

Nevadans should not expect to see mushroom clouds in the desert after President Donald Trump’s message that he wants to see nuclear testing resume immediately. “No worries about that,” said Chris ...