America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Is the world heading back into a race for nuclear weapons? When US President Donald Trump announced a nuclear test, it shocked people around the globe and put many countries on alert. With talk of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945 opened the door to the dangerous nuclear arms ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — 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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Trump wrote that he had instructed the Department of War to start testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with China and Russia. But those instructions may have been sent to the wrong department.

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025 Credit - Andrew Harnik—Getty Images Here's what we know about Trump's ...