The US has not conducted a real-world test of a nuclear bomb since 1992. After decades of declining nuclear stockpiles, the nuclear agency sees a real possibility that more countries around the ...

No country except North Korea has detonated a nuclear bomb in a test since the 1990s, and open-air tests were banned by the international community in the 1960s. That's a good thing; the practice ...

Russia has hinted that it may resume nuclear weapons testing in another veiled threat against the West. If it did, the world would know about it. Gone are the days of massive fireball explosions ...

For years, France buried radioactive waste from nuclear tests it conducted in the Algerian desert. And for decades, it ...

The mushroom clouds that reared over the South Australian desert during British nuclear testing in the 1950s will ... “This is the main one, the bomb blowing up at Maralinga,” Bryant says ...

The large Saharan dust cloud that blanketed Europe back in March 2022 contained some unexpected ingredients, according to a new study: chemical signatures consistent with US and USSR nuclear tests of ...

The thing is, there's a reason we stopped testing nuclear weapons, especially in the open air, which sends radioactive material dozens of miles into the atmosphere, spiking cancer rates in people ...