For decades, the threat of nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union hung over humanity. Now, only one nuclear ...

August 7, 1957, was a busy day at the Nevada Test Site. On this day in history, Operation Plumbbob was underway in the desert ...

When the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, Ari Beser’s grandfather was onboard both of the ...

Human judgement remains central to the launch of nuclear weapons. But experts say it’s a matter of when, not if, artificial ...

The United States dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II.

Skynet Intensifies Nobel laureates met with nuclear experts last month to discuss AI and the end of the world — and if that ...

The Japanese city, on which America dropped the first atomic bomb near the end of World War II, is commemorating the ...

Russia has announced it is ending its self-imposed moratorium on the development of short- and medium-range nuclear missiles, ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Exactly 80 years since an atomic bomb was used in war for the first time, thousands bowed their ...

The number of survivors of the U.S. atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is dwindling 80 years later, but they are ...

"Rhetoric sometimes turns into action in unpredictable ways," a former senior U.S. arms control official told Newsweek.

On Aug. 6 – the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord – Cardinal Cupich presided over a Mass for peace in Hiroshima, where ...