President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in a military uniform, announced on Oct. 26, 2025, that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered missile. If true, such a weapon could provide Russia ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright revealed the U.S. will not be testing nuclear explosions, putting to rest questions over whether the Trump administration would reverse a decades-old taboo. Testing will ...

How are nuclear weapons maintained and modernised in the 21st century? America stopped explosively testing its warheads and bombs in 1992. Now the country relies on sophisticated computer simulations ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

The United States hasn't tested nuclear weapons in three decades — but that might be about to change. The big picture: President Trump called for renewed nuclear tests on Wednesday, something the U.S.

Work to make bomb materials also went on at a plant in Hanford, Wash. The focus shifted to the remote desert of Los Alamos, N.M., where the actual bombs were built. In July 1945 the first successful ...

Donald Trump does not fear the nuclear threats that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made during his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, historian and author Serhii Plokhy has told Newsweek. Plokhy’s ...