Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) (U.S. Atomic Energy ...

"We've halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think it's appropriate to do so," the president told reporters aboard Air Force One. Experts say that the resumption of testing would be a ...

The United States is to resume nuclear weapons testing “immediately”, Donald Trump has announced, raising fears of renewed proliferation between the world’s two biggest stockpiles of atomic weaponry.

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries. By David E.

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, after atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Whether a nuclear weapon might again be used by one nation against another is a question that has haunted the world for nearly ...

Experts warn that resumption of full nuclear weapons tests is unnecessary and would undermine the United States' efforts to discourage other nations from testing their own nukes. (Tech. Sgt. Draeke ...

In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear proliferation, President Trump says he has directed the Pentagon to “start testing” U.S. nuclear weapons “on an ...