The results from the 1962 Starfish Prime test serve as a warning of what might happen if Earth’s magnetic field gets blasted ...

From 1955 onwards, the colossal B52 Stratofortress became the primary long-range heavy bomber of the US Air Force, and as the ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably ...

The Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile will take flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

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Oct. 14—In the shadow of a federal government shutdown, the site where the first atomic bomb was tested will not be open to the public this year. Located on White Sands Missile Range, the Trinity Site ...

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

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 ...

During the Cold War, the US military experimented with placing nuclear weapons on board missiles that themselves ran on ...

In another move coinciding with the 98th anniversary of the founding of its armed forces, China has released footage of last year's high-profile test launch of a nuclear-capable missile. As the ...