During the Cold War, Britain undertook covert nuclear tests in Australia, leading to hazardous radioactive fallout termed the ...

Deep in the New Mexico desert sits a military testing range tied to some of the most consequential weapons and aerospace ...

Exclusive: Tobias Ellwood says he gave MPs inaccurate information in 2018 provided by his department, the MoD ...

After the first Soviet nuclear detonation in 1949, Moscow pushed hard to create a more practical and efficient weapon. The answer was RDS-3, a bomb with a mixed uranium-plutonium core that conserved ...

When the world’s first atomic bomb sent searing light across the Jornada del Muerto desert in 1945, Anastacio Cordova of Tularosa was only 4 years old — a boy who drank water from cisterns and ...

Mokhtar Benabdelkader, a 30-year-old engineer living in Adrar, about 1,500km from Algiers, remembers the stories his ...

Recently, footage has circulated on social media that appears to document one of the most unusual nuclear tests of the Cold War: the live detonation of a tactical atomic bomb dropped from a ...

U.N. disarmament chief Izumi Nakamitsu told the U.N. General Assembly that it was meeting to mark International Day against ...

Editor’s note: If you’d like to pinpoint the instant when the world entered the nuclear age, 5:29:45 a.m. Mountain War Time on 16 July 1945, is an excellent choice. That was the moment when human ...

Did demons create the first atomic bombs? Every August, debate renews over both the wisdom and the morality of dropping the two American atomic bombs, 81 years ago, on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima ...