A military plane was carrying the weapons when it exploded over a rural area, killing three people and sending the bombs plunging toward the ground Jan. 24, 1961. The “safety interlocks on the weapons ...

“Resuming atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons would be disastrous,” says Joseph Mangano, executive director of the Radiation and Public Health Project. He cited the “lessons learned from ...

Scientists have been arguing about the health risks from radiation since the end of the 19th century, when radioactivity was ...

America began to worry about nuclear weapons falling into the “wrong hands.” Russia tested its first nuke just four years later. The U.K. got the bomb in 1952, followed by France in 1960 ...

The former head of Ukraine’s military intelligence recalls how thousands of tactical nuclear weapons were removed from its ...

When Bernard Jones Jr. and his wife, Doris, built their dream home, they didn't hold back. A grotto swimming pool with a waterfall for hot summer days. A home theater for cozy winter nights. A fruit ...

Will we be given nuclear weapons? Then let them give us nuclear weapons.” Ukraine inherited a stockpile of nuclear weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union, but gave them up in 1994 after receiving ...

Iran’s supreme leader must revoke a fatwa banning the development of nuclear weapons if the regime is to survive, his top military commanders have said. In an extraordinary intervention by ...