In a sense, U.S. nuclear weapons exist not to be used. And while nuclear threats seem far away, a tool from one group brings ...

The first atomic bomb was tested 80 years ago at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. However, most of us are not familiar with the Trinity Site simulation explosion weeks earlier on May 7, 1945. The ...

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks. More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year's end ...

Hiroshima is marking the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city. The bombing on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people and a second bomb on Nagasaki (Aug. 9) killed ...

Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors Eighty years after the dropping of the first atomic bomb, Hiroshima’s survivors and their descendants describe how health problems and ...

We asked Professor Paul Bracken, an expert in nuclear strategy, what’s behind the posturing and what test explosions would mean for the world.

In the freezing darkness of February 1950, a US B-36 bomber on a training mission began to fail over Canada. With three ...

Eighty years ago two of the world's deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction. But a Catholic monastery built in Nagasaki by a future martyr and ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.