The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to ...

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Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Wright, whose agency oversees the ...

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...

Hours before meeting President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, President Trump made a confounding proclamation: He wanted the Pentagon to “start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis” with ...

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has ...

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

President Donald Trump has ordered preparations to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing, citing alleged Russian and Chinese violations. Moscow and Beijing deny conducting explosive nuclear tests but ...