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It remains to be seen whether the three big nuclear powers are headed into a new arms race, or whether President Trump is trying to spur negotiations on a new accord now that a last Cold War treaty has expired.
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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say neutrinos could be used as a diagnostic
The post-war international order may be tearing apart at the seams and international law is increasingly looking like a polite fiction, but we did just pass one notable milestone of global peace and stability: As of this month, the world has gone the longest time without a nuclear explosion since the atomic era began more than 80 years ago.
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 the first clarity from the Trump administration since ...
Hours before meeting President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday, President Trump made a confounding proclamation: He wanted the Pentagon to “start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis” with Russia and China. Why was the statement so puzzling?
In the Australian outback, we're listening for nuclear tests—and what we hear matters more than ever
Tires stick to hot asphalt as I drive the Stuart Highway from Alice Springs northward, leaving the MacDonnell Ranges behind. My destination is the Warramunga facility, about 500 kilometers north—a remote monitoring station I've directed for the Australian National University for nearly 19 years,
President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the nation's foremost experts. But questions about what kind of ...