nuclear weapons

HISTORY: Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The disaster at the Number 4 reactor forced eve...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For almost 80 years, America’s nuclear arsenal has served as the ultimate guarantor of security for ourselves and our allies. But o...

Recently, I visited the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS), where once 928 nuclear bombs were exploded — 100 above ground, the rest underground. Sta...

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has rejected an assessment by the U.N. nuclear agency that it did past work on nuclear arms but is praising some aspects of the age...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to retaliate for North Korea's nuclear test by starting broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The latest on North Korea's announcement that it conducted a hydrogen bomb test Wednesday (all times Seoul): 5:31 a.m. Thurs...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a self...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Late in a life lived unnervingly near the nuclear abyss, William J. Perry is on a mission to warn of a "real and growing danger" of ...

VIENNA (AP) — A landmark nuclear deal with Tehran moved closer to implementation Monday, with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announcing that tons ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Defense Ministry denied on Sunday that it is considering asking for access to nuclear weapons through a NATO program un...

MOSCOW (AP) — Details of a new Russian submarine-launched nuclear torpedo have been shown on state-controlled TV, a secret the Kremlin said should nev...

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter called on North Korea to shrink and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program, while ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan will meet Sunday for their first summit talks in more than three years as the No...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A senior council of Iranian clerics and lawyers on Wednesday approved implementing the landmark nuclear deal with world powers, se...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament on Sunday approved an outline of a bill that would allow the government to implement a historic nuclear deal rea...

BEIJING (AP) — If North Korea launches a rocket into space or conducts a nuclear test in the coming weeks, as observers suspect it may, China is certa...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With a big anniversary drawing near, North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House cast largely symbolic votes on Friday against the Iran nuclear deal and sought to restrict President Barack...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A key Democratic senator, Ben Cardin of Maryland, announced opposition to the Iran nuclear deal Friday, in a blow to the White House...

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has provided a "substantive volume" of information to the U.N. atomic agency on allegations that it worked on nuclear arms, the age...