The world must prepare for the possibility that Vladimir Putin will think a nuclear attack on Ukraine is Russia's "only option", said The Telegraph. Russian losses are "ghosting close" to one million ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Pentagon realized that deploying megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe the ...

Nuclear weapons tests are among the most violent events humans can trigger, and that violence leaves fingerprints in the ...

The 72nd Test and Evaluation Squadron test-loads an unarmed B61-12 bomb, which can be outfitted with a nuclear warhead, on a B-2 Spirit bomber on June 13, 2022 at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, nuclear arsenals are growing, and the weapons themselves are becoming more ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on May 19, 2025, that production of the first B61-13 variant nuclear bomb has been completed at the Pantex plant in Amarillo, Texas. The first ...

When the countdown hit zero on September 23, 1992, the desert surface puffed up into the air, as if a giant balloon had inflated it from below. It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear ...