Deflecting killer asteroids with nuclear weapons has long been the stuff of science fiction. But thanks to an experiment at ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds.

Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, proposes three nuclear questions about ...

Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, President Vladimir Putin's point ...

By the end of World War II, advancements in military technology rendered traditional battleship guns less decisive. In ...

Documents reveal decades of denials and cover-ups, hindering proper compensation for the Australian victims of nuclear tests.

The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), the quarter-century old law that compensates Americans sickened by U.S.

After the atomic bombings saved his life in 1945, WWII survivor Jeff Eerkens has dedicated his life's work to advancing ...

In 1945, the U.S. dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan to bring an end to World War II. For Jeff Eerkens, the military operation did more than end the war — it saved his life. Eerkens was imprisoned in ...

Moscow was said to be "fully ready" for detonating a nuclear bomb at "any moment" in the Arctic, as per a report published in The Daily Mail. Soviet test site's director Rear Admiral Andrei Sinitsyn ...