A U.S. official focusing on arms control has provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer led the scientific effort that created the world’s first atomic bomb during World War II. The Trinity test in 1945 produced an explosion equal to nearly 25,000 tons of TNT, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron announced the extension of France's nuclear deterrent to eight European nations, alongside ...

US intelligence agencies believe that China is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons and has conducted at least one covert explosive test in recent years as part of a broader push to ...

Group Captain Richard Dixon, who has died aged 93, saw service in the Suez Canal Zone and was twice deployed to Christmas ...

The U.S. Vice President stated that Trump was seeking a long-term guarantee that Iran would never pursue nuclear weapons ...

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In October 1964, the People’s Republic of China detonated its first atomic bomb under the code name Project 596 at the Lop Nur test site. Developed after the collapse of Soviet assistance, the program ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82', was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

From outset, this was clear that prospect of acquiring weapon tech was at least part of reason for Iran’s interest in nuclear ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on a controversial 1969 nuclear test in western Garfield County. The first story appeared in Sunday’s Aspen Daily News. Jay Cowan and Judy Haas — ...