Nuclear weapons, including atomic and thermonuclear bombs, are among the most destructive forces known to humanity. These weapons of mass destruction harness the power of nuclear fission or a ...

Mary Riseley walked through glowing rows of luminarias looking for her mother’s name at a vigil for New Mexico downwinders ...

In this context, the Anglo-French agreement July 11 to develop close cooperation in nuclear weapons strategy assumes considerable importance. The accord was the capstone of the three-day visit of ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New ...

Top nuclear experts gathered in Chicago to offer world leaders a playbook for reducing the risk of nuclear war.

On July 16, 1945 — 80 years ago — the federal government detonated the first atomic bomb in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico.