A nuclear test veteran who witnessed the detonation of several British atomic bombs in the 1950s has said he was "exposed to ...

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organisation operates an international monitoring system that detects seismic activity, soundwaves and radioactivity associated a wide range of phenomena ...

the first full-scale test was made of the implosion type atomic fission bomb. For the first time in history there was a nuclear explosion. And what an explosion! The bomb was not dropped from an ...

The drills come as the head of a Kremlin-backed nuclear research centre called on Russia to "test an atomic bomb to intimidate the West", The Times reported. Mikhail Kovalchuk, head of the ...

Its nuclear programme is a rare area where Iran might claim to retain the initiative. Late last year Iran was producing ...

"We have made a thing, a most terrible weapon, that has altered abruptly and profoundly the nature of the world." Here is a video of the first nuclear bomb test: Read next ...

“But it is not a true fusion bomb capable of the massive multi-megaton yields these bombs produce.” North Korea said this most recent nuclear test was an “act of self-defense” to ensure it ...