Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

Discover the dramatic story behind the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. This video explores its Cold ...

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

The front page of the Parkersburg News from Aug. 15, 1945. (Archive Image) Eighty years ago last week our country did something that had never been done before or since. They exploded an “atom bomb” ...

While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled over 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that ...

President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...