The military once considered using balloons as nuclear weapons systems

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...
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No explosions for Nevada nuclear weapons tests, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says

Nevadans should not expect to see mushroom clouds in the desert after President Donald Trump’s message that he wants to see nuclear testing resume immediately. “No worries about that,” said Chris ...
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Inside the test of America’s “safest” nuclear bomb

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over ...

Interactive tracker shows how safe you'll be if nuclear bomb hits as Putin debuts missile

A new tool shows the catastrophic impact of a nuclear strike as Russia deploys its “unstoppable” Oreshnik missile, putting ...
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Which countries have nuclear weapons and how are they tested? What to know

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

Russia’s New Weapon Could Send Radioactive Tsunamis to American Shores. How Do We Defend Against It?

The weapon is the most recent iteration of the Poseidon, a nuclear-powered super torpedo named after the Greek god of the sea ...
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Operation Mixed Company simulated a nuclear explosion with a million pounds of TNT

On Nov. 13, 1972, Terry Christensen was working in his office at Dixon Inc. on Orchard Mesa when he, like others, “felt the tremor.” He added. “We went out and saw the smoke. We saw a mushroom cloud, ...
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Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons?

Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with ...
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The experts respond to Trump’s proposal to “start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis”

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social, his social media site, that he had instructed the Department of War (formerly the Defense Department) to return to “nuclear testing” — although it’s ...
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Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...