NAGASAKI, Japan — Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during ...
Nearly 70 years ago, a team of scientists and military officers from the US Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense prepared to unleash America's first hydrogen weapon on the remote ...
The Trump administration's elevation of a vaccine skeptic to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials, who told CBS News ...
Eight-year-old Merlin Holland was walking down Shaftesbury Avenue in London with his father one day in the summer of 1954 when he noticed the name Oscar Wilde on a theater billboard. “Oh, Daddy, isn’t ...
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers cautioned against ushering in a nuclear arms race in the Middle East after the United States and Saudi Arabia said they signed an initial agreement on ...
On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...
In June 2019, the director of the Pentagon's main intelligence agency made an eyebrow-raising allegation about Russia and its nuclear programs: Moscow is testing its atomic weapons. "The US government ...
Experts warn that resumption of full nuclear weapons tests is unnecessary and would undermine the United States' efforts to discourage other nations from testing their own nukes. (Tech. Sgt. Draeke ...
President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...
On 13 April 2017, a single bomb drifted into an ISIS tunnel network in Afghanistan—and introduced most of the world to the GBU-43/B MOAB, the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the ...
WASHINGTON − The agency responsible for building, maintaining, and storing America's nuclear weapons faces an internal review of its costly effort to reestablish mass production of nuclear warhead ...