How The US Tested Nuclear Weapons (And Why It Became Too Dangerous To Continue)

The history of nuclear weapons testing is a complex and interesting one. Here's the story of the U.S.' nuclear testing program and why it stopped.

Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap ...
The Heritage Foundation

Learning to Love the Bomb? Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons and Limited Nuclear War

Limited nuclear war is a possibility grounded in strategic logic and a probability accentuated by the current geopolitical and military context. Planning for limited nuclear war is necessary not only ...
CNN

More than 2,000 nuclear weapons have been detonated in the past 80 years. Their effects still linger around the world

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Nuclear Bomb Map Shows Impact of US Weapons on Major Cities

The W88, estimated to yield 455 kilotons of TNT explosives, is one of the most powerful nuclear warheads in the U.S. arsenal, and is carried on Trident II D5 submarine-launched ballistic missiles ...

Putin Brandishes Menacing Nuclear Weapons as Talks With U.S. Falter

Touting new weapons tests, Moscow signals to Washington that it must contend with the Kremlin’s power and negotiate.

Trump's testing plans for US nuclear weapons won't include explosions, energy secretary says

Energy Secretary Chris Wright says that new tests of the U.S. nuclear weapons system ordered up by President Donald Trump will not include nuclear explosions. Wright in a Fox News interview on ...
Military.com

NATO Begins a Big Nuclear Exercise Next Week. Protecting the Weapons Is a Key Part of the Drill

BRUSSELS — NATO will hold its major annual nuclear exercise next week, the alliance’s chief announced Friday, with an important part of the drill to focus on protecting the weapons before they're ever ...