The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a ...

Thirty years ago this week, on an island in the South Pacific, France conducted its final nuclear test – ending a programme that exposed thousands of people to radiation over decades. The islands of ...

Something big may have just happened in Iran. Unverified reports are claiming a major explosion near the Parchin military complex—a site long linked to Iran’s secretive nuclear weapons research. No ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

When the first nuclear bomb test took place 80 years ago, the scientists who gathered to observe the explosion in the New Mexico desert recognized they were playing with fire. Physicist Enrico Fermi ...

Since the dawn of the nuclear age, there have been efforts to limit nuclear arms. What does this treaty’s lapse mean for the ...

Andrew Bustamante explains that his "stance" on the subject has been "fairly consistent", and believes there remains a ...

Nuclear weapons testing has affected every single human on the planet, causing at least four million premature deaths from ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

From Pacific islands to global fallout, a new report traces how decades of nuclear testing left a silent health crisis that ...