In 1956, American nuclear weapons scientists conducted an experimental detonation during Operation Redwing that produced a ...

The first atomic bomb is detonated near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. The successful test paved the way for the ...

It is the first time the president has addressed nuclear weapons, but he didn’t deny US could use ‘mother of all bombs’.

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes. But when the New Mexico dawn was torn open at 5:29 am on 16 July 1945, it was, without a doubt, a pivotal moment in humanity's ...

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was ...

For more than a decade, conservative activists held that a single atomic bomb could, without killing Americans directly, lay ...

For years, Tehran invoked a religious decree banning nuclear weapons even as it pursued a clandestine program to develop them. Now, following the war and the ...