The U.S. and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and ...

Renewed testing threats expose how miscommunication and eroding arms-control limits risk triggering a destabilising new ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...

President Donald Trump has ignited a firestorm of controversy and confusion with his announcement that the United States will begin nuclear weapons testing. It's unclear whether he was referring to ...

CFR scholars provide expert analysis and commentary on international issues. Erin D. Dumbacher is Stanton nuclear security senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. President Donald Trump ...

The United States hasn't tested nuclear weapons in three decades — but that might be about to change. The big picture: President Trump called for renewed nuclear tests on Wednesday, something the U.S.

A subsurface atomic test near Yucca Flats, Nev., in March 1955. (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission via AP) In what would be a major shift in a decades-old American policy against global nuclear ...

VIENNA, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, or CTBTO, said on Thursday that any explosive nuclear weapon test would be harmful for global ...

China’s nuclear weapons development has long concerned the U.S., which has warned that the East Asian power could possess more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030. In September 2024, China test-fired ...