A US official says a seismic station in Kazakhstan collected evidence of an alleged China nuclear test at Lop Nur in June ...

A senior official from the State Department presented new seismic data to bolster the accusation that Beijing may have ...

The United States is ready to carry out low-yield nuclear tests to match alleged secret explosions by China and Russia, ...

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing are unraveling.

Out of this surreal convergence of spectacle and science emerged one of the most striking and unsettling cultural icons of ...

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now. “I think the tests we’re ...

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The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...