There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. While the federal government monitors the underground area, ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Scientists have been building nuclear weapons for more than 80 years, but crafting this technology remains a challenge.

Consecutive earthquakes have raised questions about the possibility of Iran's nuclear program. However, the US and Israel are ...

A video circulating on social media shows a blast in an empty plot, creating a large crater resembling an underground explosion.

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. After nuclear war was barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis ...