The National Nuclear Security Administration said development for a bomb 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on ...

Brandon Williams, the nominee to lead the National Nuclear Security Administration, said he would recommend reliance on ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

There’s no signpost marking Mississippi’s only nuclear test site. While the federal government monitors the underground area, ...

From the Smithsonian Channel These Atomic Bomb Tests Used U.S. Troops as Guinea Pigs Operation Desert Rock was the codename for a series of military tests in the 1950s aimed at understanding the ...

The tests are part of a collaboration between the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) to develop and qualify fuels for fast reactors through a five-year cost-shared ...

After shedding light on the suffering of victims exposed to nuclear tests conducted decades ago in the Pacific Ocean to domestic audiences, Hideaki Ito is intent on taking his message overseas ...

The site, formerly known as the Nevada Test Site until 2010, is located 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, and was the site of over 900 nuclear detonations between 1951 and 1992. It is 1,355 square ...

The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...

The hydraulic tests to check the primary circuit systems and equipment at the Rooppur nuclear power plant's first unit have been successfully completed, paving the way for hot functional tests to ...