The Hiroshima bomb is the most devastating to have been used in real combat. But today’s nuclear weapons are far, far more ...

Instead, the US government is pouring billions more of our tax dollars into building a new generation of nuclear weapons and ...

In the 80 years since, nuclear weapons have not been detonated again in anger even though the possessor states have swelled ...

In its most recent report on Chinese nuclear weapons, the Federation of American Scientists estimated that China possesses 462 land-based missile launchers capable of targeting the continental U.S., ...

By Michael Rühle, Defense Opinion Writer. On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days ...

When the U.S. military detonated the world's first nuclear weapon near New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, people living in the nearby areas were exposed to harmful radiation.

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late ...

An expert has said that the epicentre of the quake is located in an area responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a significant breakthrough in fusion ...

In 1963 the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The treaty ...