In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear ...

The tests may have been carried out with good intentions but the reality represented some significant oversights, gaffs, and ...

If we hold onto nuclear weapons, most world cities face potential incineration within about an hour’s time. The resulting ...

The experts warn that the risk of conventional warfare leading to the use of nuclear weapons is becoming serious.

NAGASAKI--A badly damaged wall clock that stopped at 11:02 a.m.--the moment the atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945--has suffered from the ravages of time at a museum here.

A 10-year-old boy from the Japanese capital of Tokyo has begun telling the stories of people who survived the 1945 atomic ...

Editor in chief Nancy Shute traces the history of nuclear weapons, from the first sustained nuclear reaction in 1942 to the renewed interest in explosive tests today.

By Keith Hamm By design, the detonation of a nuclear weapon in a major city would be devastating. The explosion of intense ...