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On July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted the world's first nuclear bomb test in the New Mexico desert as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to the detonations of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ...

Donald Trump said that he was far more concerned about the threat of nuclear war than climate change during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. Ambassador to Denmark official Vladimir ...

Because a failure of deterrence will cause a catastrophe beyond reckoning. A nuclear war between the United States and Russia could kill hundreds of millions of people in the first afternoon ...

Bacon highlights that the U.S. discontinued its 24/7 airborne alert for its nuclear command post after the Cold War, replacing it with a 15-minute ground alert. However, with modern threats such ...

It’s a shift that, if Trump were to again win the presidency, could have profound consequences for peace on the Korean peninsula — and for the potential outbreak of nuclear war in East Asia.

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rattled his nuclear saber, and the U.S. has dismissed those threats as reckless, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin calling ...

The Cold War’s end promised relief from nuclear nightmares. Long-adversarial governments agreed to eliminate warheads and collaborated to stop the spread of atomic weapons. That promise is now ...

TOKYO, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was rising, renewing their call to abolish ...

October 1962 is the closest the world has ever come to ‘the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind,’ said Robert F. Kennedy. The Cold War had reached boiling point with the Soviet ...

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly last week in favor of launching a two-year study on the effects of nuclear war—the first such expert study the UN has pursued since the 1980s. A total of ...

Google will back the construction of seven small nuclear-power reactors in the U.S., a first-of-its-kind deal that aims to help feed the tech company’s growing appetite for electricity to power ...