Las Vegas Raiders

Raider Nation Origin Stories: Meet James Hollins, America's unsung first Black nuclear test leader

After three years, he was promoted to event engineer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) by the National Nuclear ...
International Atomic Energy Agency

Update 332 – IAEA Director General Statement on Situation in Ukraine

Persistent instability in Ukraine’s electrical grid continues to challenge nuclear safety during the military conflict, at times causing disruptions in the availability of off-site power for the ...

Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters

The U.S. and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests.
Flightglobal

US F-35A test dropped inert B61 nuclear bombs in August

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 Washington Post

China rapidly expands nuclear test site as Trump revives Cold War tension

President Donald Trump’s announcement this month that the United States would restart nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other nations — alluding to unverified claims that Moscow and ...
The Hill

Trump’s nuclear test order projects toughness — and sows confusion

Was President Trump’s recent directive to resume U.S. nuclear testing — after a hiatus of 33 years — an actual policy decision? Or was it a political stunt to project toughness? His surprise ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How the United States achieved its de facto nuclear test ban—and how to preserve it

President Donald Trump is off on another ill-informed ranting spree, this time claiming that he has ordered the military to resume nuclear testing. In his interview with 60 Minutes last week, he ...
USA Today

If Trump resumes testing of nuclear weapons, Russia says it's going to do it too

Senior Russian officials on Nov. 11 said they were still waiting for a White House explanation about what President Donald Trump meant he when said he had instructed the Pentagon to resume nuclear ...
Science News

If another country tested nuclear weapons, here’s how we’d know

President Donald Trump has called for the United States to test its nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades. But Trump’s statements about testing — in particular, whether other nations are ...
Rolling Stone

The Devastating Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Tests

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 Washington Post

Trump’s ill-defined nuclear test threat compels a response from Putin

President Donald Trump’s vague order to resume nuclear weapons testing has prompted Russia to say it will explore doing so, too, an unsettling development that harks back to the Cold War-era arms ...