A cloud of purple smoke rose over the town of Yasny in Russia's Orenburg region, where a missile base is located, following the sound of an explosion earlier. — Ukrinform.

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

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

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs The ...

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

Thousands of nuclear tests have been conducted around the world but, for the past three decades, most countries have stopped.

During what would become the most dramatic month in space history, an apocalyptic explosion of near-nuclear magnitude took ...

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was ...