Andrew Bustamante explains that his "stance" on the subject has been "fairly consistent", and believes there remains a ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

Introduced in 1960, the American MK41 hydrogen bomb remains the highest-yield nuclear weapon ever placed in active service.

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.