Here's why potential changes to the nuclear test ban matter | AP …
Dec 2, 2025 · 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.
Nuclear weapons testing - Wikipedia
Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the performance of nuclear weapons and the effects of their explosion. Over 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been …
A Return to Nuclear Testing Looks Inevitable. Here’s How to …
Dec 3, 2025 · A limited test ban would set important guardrails to manage escalation among nuclear weapons states, particularly the U.S., Russia, and China.
Nuclear testing: Why did it stop, why test and who has nuclear weapons ...
Oct 30, 2025 · How many nuclear weapons tests have there been, why were they stopped - and why would anyone start them again?
Russia, US threaten to resume nuclear testing. Here is why it …
Dec 2, 2025 · Russia and the US threatened to resume nuclear testing after several decades. Here is why it matters Experts say these threats put pressure on nonproliferation efforts and …
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests tests at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Since 1993, it has used a program known as Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship to maintain confidence in …
Trump instructs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons ‘on
Oct 29, 2025 · President Donald Trump on Thursday vowed to begin testing US nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China, heralding a potentially major shift in decades of US …
Trump says nuclear weapons testing to resume in US after more …
Oct 30, 2025 · President Donald Trump has called on US military leaders to resume testing nuclear weapons in order to keep pace with other countries such as Russia and China.
Report to Congress on U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests
Aug 21, 2025 · Press reports in May 2020 indicated that Trump Administration officials had discussed whether to conduct an explosive test of a U.S. nuclear weapon. Since then, the first …
The secret lab where America tests its nuclear weapons : NPR
Jan 29, 2025 · A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come soon.