On July 16, 1945, the U.S. detonated the world’s first nuclear bomb in the New Mexico desert—without warning the thousands living nearby. Radiation blanketed the land. Newborn babies died. Cancer ...

An eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands, along with some remarkably prescient observations about what they could mean for future superpower rivalries.

On Aug. 9, 1945, 6-year-old Chiyoko Motomura was playing on a veranda at her family’s Nagasaki, Japan, home. Her mother, aunt ...

If anything, the widespread lack of comprehension (and so protest) is one big reason nuclear war remains so chillingly ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...

Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

India's 22-year-old nuclear doctrine, based on 'no first use' and 'credible minimum deterrence', faces urgent re-evaluation.

Eighty years later, American Catholic bishops visited Japan to demand nuclear disarmament—and called for political leaders to ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blunt critique of Mexican bread by a British baker sparked a cascade of social media outrage, ultimately ...

Twenty years after Garmon’s death, Idahoans are getting that recognition. This year’s congressional budget includes a one-time payment of $100,000 for downwinders who lived in the states affected by ...