Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the Earth, sea, air, and even in orbit. The physics of shock waves, sound, and ...

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 ...

While China is expanding its nuclear arsenal at a dramatic pace, Russia and the U.S. are also testing new delivery platforms.

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation’s adversaries to ...

(NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/AFP) President Donald Trump Thursday sowed confusion among experts with his call for the start of nuclear weapons testing, with some pundits interpreting the announcement as ...

The U.S. successfully tested a tactical thermonuclear gravity bomb using inert warheads in August, according to a research and development arm of the Department of Energy's (DoE) National Nuclear ...

FRENCHMAN FLAT, Nev. — In the middle of a dry lakebed northwest of Las Vegas sits a lone section of a bridge, its steel girders bent like spaghetti. Nearby are other oddities — a massive bank vault ...

Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have opened a new facility designed to measure the physical properties of molten ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky for hundreds of miles. By Nicholas Slayton Published Feb 10, 2025 8:07 AM EST During ...