The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 atomic bomb, also known as the Tsar Bomba, mounted on its underside. The ...

North Korea said Sunday it had tested a hydrogen bomb which it can mount on a missile, declaring "perfect success" in its biggest-ever nuclear detonation. Pyongyang has long sought the means to ...

The world’s nuclear-armed states are beefing up their atomic arsenals and walking out of arms control pacts, a think tank has said. A new arms race is emerging after decades of reductions in the ...

During the Cold War, the US government launched a 1.4 megaton bomb into space. Starfish Prime, as the test was called, was the highest-altitude nuclear test in history. But what would happen if we ...

Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with ...