Warming global temperatures have led to rising sea levels, which pose a risk to residents of small island nations such as the ...

In the middle of the Pacific, a concrete dome the size of a football field holds the toxic legacy of Cold War nuclear testing ...

Nuclear weapons haven’t been tested in the United States since 1992. Find out why, and what could happen if the hiatus ends.

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS - Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But living on Rongelap - a remote tropical atoll in the central Pacific ...

The US Air Force is conducting a routine test of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile. The last Minuteman III test was in May. It flew over the Pacific toward a target in the Marshall ...

The world passed a nuclear milestone this week. And, perhaps surprisingly given the recent run of saber-rattling from the likes of Russia and the United States, it’s a positive one.

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...