The world has seen the devastation caused by the two atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in the Second World War, but the havoc would be multifold if a modern-day nuclear weapon were used in a ...

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recent Chinese military study reported on Sunday says using three precision-guided warheads is more effective at destroying ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...

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The use of atomic bombs on Japan is often justified by the potential loss of Allied lives in a ground invasion and as retribution for Japanese war atrocities. The atomic blasts and subsequent ...

This is a compact version of the specialized slide rule included in the reference book "The Effects of Nuclear Weapons," published by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1957 and revised in 1962. The ...

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 ...

The United States Air Force maintains a small, tightly controlled fleet of aircraft certified to deliver nuclear weapons, and the newest member of that club just passed a significant real-world test.

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