The previous chapters present the results of the work carried out to address the committee’s charge, including a literature review, calculations, and analysis of information presented by many experts.

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Alex Partezana was a 22-year-old Marine in April 1953 when he received an unusual order: to observe nuclear weapons testing in the desert outside Las Vegas, Nevada. He still remembers the first blast ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

A website that lets users simulate a nuclear attack has seen an uptick in users amid the ongoing war with Iran.

In Can a Russian Nuclear Weapon Really Sink the UK?, Russian TV claims that a nuclear weapon could potentially sink the UK with devastating effects. Dr. Ben Miles, a nuclear engineer, reacts to the ...

Just minutes before he was scheduled to meet President Xi Jinping of China, the president threatened on social media to resume nuclear testing “on an equal basis” with other countries. By David E.

Just days after launching a war against Iran, President Donald Trump favorably compared his efforts eliminating Iran's nuclear weapons capability to a 2015 deal negotiated by one of his predecessors.