Oct 30, 2025 · President Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again for the first time in decades. "We've halted many years ago, but with others doing testing I think...

1 day ago · This op-ed's authors argue that the president's nuclear testing comments were correct, considering America's aging arsenal and growing security concerns.

Thousands of tests have been performed, with most in the second half of the 20th century. The first nuclear device was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site in New Mexico on July …

Oct 30, 2025 · The Energy Department has overseen testing of nuclear weapons since its creation in 1977. Two other agencies before it — not the Defense Department — conducted tests.

Oct 30, 2025 · President Trump’s unexpected declaration on Thursday that he was ordering the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing prompted visions of a return to the worst days of the Cold War, …

U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests tests at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Since 1993, it has used a program known as Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship to maintain confidence in the …

Oct 30, 2025 · President Donald Trump raised questions Wednesday night about a decades-old U.S. prohibition on testing its nuclear weapons by detonating them, a prospect which experts say is …

Aug 21, 2025 · Press reports in May 2020 indicated that Trump Administration officials had discussed whether to conduct an explosive test of a U.S. nuclear weapon. Since then, the first Trump …

Resuming U.S. nuclear testing is technically and militarily unnecessary. Moreover, it would lead to a global chain reaction of nuclear testing, raise global tensions, and blow apart global nonproliferation …

May 15, 2025 · The number of nuclear tests for the United States does not include the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This data only includes nuclear tests announced or reported by …