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“No one in their sound mind will use a nuclear weapon against Russia,” the Russian president said. The test could not be independently verified.

Visual evidence from a remote base in the Arctic shows launch preparations mirroring those that preceded earlier tests.

Kim Jong-un is likely to seek missile and warhead technology in an expected visit to Russia, and he is already getting a public embrace he has long sought.

Some wild boar hunted in German forests have radiation levels that exceed the limit deemed safe for human consumption. New research suggests that it’s not just because of Chernobyl.

GettyIn the forests of southern Germany, there are roving bands of wild boars wreaking havoc. The shaggy-haired swine have been known to bite and charge at humans with their tusks, and are highly protective of their young. However, the creatures are also known to be incredibly radioactive—so much so that they’ve been deemed unsafe to eat.While deranged packs of radioactive pigs might seem more suited for a post-apocalyptic video game, they certainly exist and researchers have been ...

You read that correctly. A team of scientists just tested wild boar meat from Southern Germany and found that radioactivity in the boars stemmed from nuclear weapons testing, rather than the Chernobyl power plant disaster of 1986.

The ​rocket failure was an embarrassment for the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, who badly needed a morale booster for his people.

SANTA FE — New Mexico families who have endured generations of sickness and death since the Trinity detonation in 1945 say time is running out to secure compensation from the

The state has gotten more attention with the release of “Oppenheimer,” a movie about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the top-secret Manhattan Project.

As a new generation of Americans learns about the world’s first nuclear test, the people who lived through it are being left out of the story again.