The United States is to resume nuclear weapons testing “immediately”, Donald Trump has announced, raising fears of renewed proliferation between the world’s two biggest stockpiles of atomic weaponry.

WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The nuclear weapons testing ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump will not involve nuclear explosions at this time, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Sunday. "I ...

The pause in Israel’s war on Iran provides an opportunity to reflect on the role of the United States in what is essentially the protection of Israel’s monopoly on nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday. It was ...

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

The US fired a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) early Wednesday, after President Trump called for restarting the nuclear weapons tests. Air Force Global Strike Command launched ...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday that the weapons testing President Trump ordered last week will not include nuclear explosions. “I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system ...

President Trump has ordered the military to “immediately” begin testing nuclear weapons for the first time in more than three decades in response to the growing arsenal Russia and China are amassing, ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Trump administration by Monday will furlough about 1,400 workers at the agency that manages the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal due to the government shutdown, the ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country will explore the possibility of carrying out fresh nuclear tests after US President Donald Trump said last week that Washington would begin nuclear ...