A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing ...

EVER since the invention of the atomic bomb, we’ve lived with the terrifying spectre of one being dropped on Britain. And ...

Fighting around nuclear power plants has repeatedly raised fears of a nuclear catastrophe during three years of war.

The timing is sensitive as the incident comes against the backdrop of the Munich Security Conference, a gathering of world ...

The IAEA, which has a team stationed at the site, did not assign blame but confirmed that its observers heard an explosion.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s decommissioned Chornobyl nuclear power plant on Feb. 14 just as world leaders gathered for the ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

The outer shell that was struck is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. Soon after ...