(Clayton WEAR/US AIR FORCE/AFP) President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of controversy and confusion with his announcement that the United States will begin nuclear weapons testing. It's ...

President Donald Trump raised questions Wednesday night about a decades-old U.S. prohibition on testing its nuclear weapons by detonating them, a prospect which experts say is dangerous to populations ...

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On October 30, Trump ordered the Pentagon to immediately restart the process for testing nuclear weapons after a halt of 33 years. "Because of other countries testing programs, I have instructed the ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world President Donald Trump said he had ordered the US defence department to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal ...

“Neither China or Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test, so I’m not reading anything into it or reading anything out to it.” If confirmed to the position, Correll would be responsible for the ...

Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Wright, whose agency oversees the ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

VIENNA (Reuters) -The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, said on Thursday that any explosive nuclear weapon test would be harmful for global non-proliferation ...