On October 30, 1961, the USSR detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb over Novaya Zemlya. The explosion remained unparalleled in ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. AP/Wide World Photos ...

North Korea’s interest in nuclear weapons was decades in the making—but its first earnest attempt during the 1990s was stymied by external factors.

Ahead of the International Day against Nuclear Tests on August 29 2018, we met up with British atomic veterans who were present at test sites in Australia and the Pacific, to find out what it’s like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted an AI image showing an explosion of a nuclear bomb over Tel Aviv two days before Israel's Oct. 27 election, and told voters they faced an existential ...