The United States hasn't tested nuclear weapons in three decades — but that might be about to change. The big picture: President Trump called for renewed nuclear tests on Wednesday, something the U.S.

Top energy and nuclear officials in the Trump administration are planning to meet with the White House and National Security Council in the coming days to dissuade President Donald Trump from resuming ...

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Bennett is the senior White House correspondent at TIME. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo on Oct. 28, 2025 President ...

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The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian ...

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.

President Donald Trump’s call for the United States to resume testing of nuclear weapons last week has experts scratching their heads. What did he really mean – exploding a warhead or testing delivery ...

(Corrections & Clarifications: This story previously misstated how far nuclear fallout from the government's atomic tests reached. Fallout from the initial Trinity Test reached 46 of the 48 contiguous ...

A Lockheed Martin F-35A stealth fighter from the US Air Force (USAF) test dropped multiple inert versions of a nuclear bomb in August. The USA’s Sandia National Laboratories, a Honeywell subsidiary ...

The U.S. scientists who tested the first atomic bomb, July 16, 1945, took the ultimate gamble of setting the atmosphere on fire and destroying all life on Earth. Even after the renowned physicist Hans ...