Nov. 6 (UPI) --President Donald Trump's calls to ramp up nuclear weapons testing last week have put nuclear watchdogs and world leaders on alert while experts say the United States has little to gain.

Scientific knowledge about the damaging effects of nuclear-weapons testing helped to end such tests. Those findings haven’t changed.

Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons - as President Donald Trump called for last week - would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation's adversaries to ...

The U.S. government revealed new intelligence on Tuesday suggesting China may have conducted an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donald Trump’s command for the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing will not include explosive tests, for now, ...

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 ...

The testing of nuclear weapons is suddenly a major topic of discussion after being largely dormant for three decades. Last week, Russia tested a nuclear-powered missile, but did not detonate an actual ...

The Cold War left many inglorious legacies. The Runit dome is a good example. From the outside, it looks almost too ...