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A nuclear test so powerful it circled the globe - the Tsar Bomba

In October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the Tsar Bomba, a nuclear weapon with a yield of 50 megatons. The explosion was ...
CNBC

Trump orders Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing, citing rival nations’ programs

Trump ordered the Pentagon to restart nuclear testing for the first time since 1992, citing rival nations’ actions. Trump’s claim that the U.S. has the largest arsenal contradicts data showing Russia ...
CBS News

Trump's plans to restart nuclear testing likely won't produce any mushroom clouds, experts say

President Trump's comments about restarting weapons tests are not likely to lead to mushroom-cloud explosions over the New Mexico desert or seismic shaking underground in Nevada, according to the ...
Star Tribune

Rash: Trump’s ‘alarming’ and ‘incoherent’ stand on nuclear testing

Twice last week, in international and domestic affairs, President Donald Trump called for the nuclear option. Regarding U.S. politics, he used the euphemism in calling for the Senate to jettison the ...
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 ...
The Diplomat

A Return to Nuclear Testing Looks Inevitable. Here’s How to Manage It.

Prior to his meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on October 30, United States President Donald Trump wrote that he has ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing ...
Stars and Stripes

Democrats introduce bill barring Trump from unilaterally restarting nuclear weapons tests

WASHINGTON — Democratic senators representing states that bore the brunt of the fallout from explosive nuclear weapons testing are seeking to pass legislation that would bar President Donald Trump ...
NBC New York

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 ...
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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 New York Times

New Weapons Testing Won’t Include Nuclear Explosions, Energy Secretary Says

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the testing ordered up in a surprise announcement by President Trump last week would focus on “the other parts” of nuclear weaponry. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs The ...
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 ...