The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

President Trump has argued the U.S. should test nuclear weapons because other countries are doing it. But scientific data suggest they’re not.

New scientific modeling reveals the shocking distances needed to survive a nuclear bomb explosion and its devastating effects.

Against this backdrop, I can’t stop thinking about a scene in the new film “A House of Dynamite.” A clean-cut U.S. Navy ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled over 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...