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.

The mushroom cloud from the world’s first test of a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb), over Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952. [AP Photo/Los Alamos National Laboratory] On ...

Should the U.S. and Russia resume nuclear testing? The answer to that question must be a resounding “No.” Yet President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, eager to project strength, have ...

President Donald Trump’s recent call for the resumption of nuclear tests struck a chord with the Pacific island nations, ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

A Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighter from the US Air Force (USAF) test dropped multiple inert versions of a nuclear bomb in August. The USA’s Sandia National Laboratories, a Honeywell subsidiary ...

HIROSHIMA—A family here has achieved closure over the death of a loved one killed 80 years ago in the atomic bombing through ...

Researchers have used DNA from strands of hair to identify a teenage victim of the Hiroshima atomic bombing nearly 80 years ...

In a first, DNA testing has managed to link preserved remains of a Hiroshima victim to a teenage girl who disappeared after ...

This marks 1st successful case of atomic bomb victim identification using this method, with thousands of samples kept at ...

A victim of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II has been identified as a 13-year-old girl through DNA testing ...