Social Media Ideas for Nuclear Testing

Less testing was a choice. So is the future

The risk of nuclear war does not rest on a single decision. It accumulates, test by test, each explosion edging the world closer to potential catastrophe. That escalation carries a...

US blast simulation targets China’s alleged secret nuke testing

Faced with rising great-power suspicions and the challenge of verifying clandestine, cavity-muffled detonations, the US is turning to high-precision subterranean blast experiments...

U.S. conducts explosion experiment at nuclear test site

The Energy Department's nuclear agency has conducted an explosive test in the Nevada desert designed to detect low-yield nuclear blasts from China and Russia, the National Nuclear...

Namibia hosts first African nuclear test verification exercise

WINDHOEK, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Namibia is hosting the first Integrated Field Exercise in Africa, with about 250 international experts to test procedures and equipment used to invest...

US conducts experiment to improve nuclear blast detection

The US National Nuclear Security Administration ​conducted a "subsurface, ​non-nuclear chemical high-explosive experiment" on Wednesday that the Energy Department said aimed to imp...

US blast simulation targets China’s alleged secret nuclear testing

The US has conducted a non-nuclear underground experiment to enhance its ability to detect low-yield nuclear explosions that it explicitly linked with a test that Washington suspec...

35 Years After Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Choice Still Challenges the World

TOKYO / ASTANA, August 31 (IPS) - Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold War remain visible. At the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site, the Soviet U...

Joe-1: The First Soviet Nuclear Test, Sept. 23, 1949

North Korea’s nuclear tests have turned this mountain into an earthquake hot spot

Seismic activity has increased markedly at Mount Mantap, also known as Mantapsan, since the last test blast there in 2017

The Totskoye Nuclear Exercise Exposed Soldiers to Radiation to Prepare for a Potential Third World War

Learn why thousands of soldiers were deliberately exposed to radiation from a nuclear bomb in the Soviet Union, and why other nations did the same.

UN chief says nuclear tests 'shatter trust,' wants global test ban

Antonio Guterres urges nuclear-armed nations to maintain moratoria following Russian ICBM test

U.N. spotlights nuclear weapon states' refusal to ratify test ban treaty at divisive time

With the U.S., Russia, China and other countries that have nuclear weapons refusing to ratify the treaty that bans atomic testing, the United Nations warned on Monday that any new...

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by condemning China nuclear test

Leaders in the Pacific have registered their concern over a nuclear-capable missile test conducted by China in July, calling on all states to provide advance warning ahead of any t...

US challenges China on secret nuclear tests as arms race looms

A mounting standoff over allegations of covert Chinese nuclear testing and rapid arsenal expansion has collided with an intensifying domestic debate within the US over whether it m...

From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference

VIENNA, September 24 (IPS) - The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) i...

North Korea Stopped Nuclear Testing in 2017 – But Triggered Nearly 1,400 Earthquakes Since

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North Korea’s nuclear tests may have reactivated seismic faults

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists said they have detected an unexpected and prolonged increase in seismic activity at North Korea’s sprawling Punggye-ri nuclear test site since...

Nuclear Victims’ Experiences Must Be at the Heart of Global Efforts for Assistance and Remediation

UNITED NATIONS, September 7 (IPS) - More and more, global disarmament discussions are encompassing the humanitarian and environmental impacts of the testing and use of nuclear wea...

If We Can Start an Epoch, We Can Start a Farming Revolution

NEW YORK, October 2 (IPS) - In November 1952, the United States detonated the world’s first thermonuclear device at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test, code-named Iv...

North Korea’s Underground Nuclear Tests Are Reactivating Dormant Earthquake Fault Lines

Scientists recorded 1,399 local quakes since North Korea began its underground nuclear tests—a spike unlike anything the region has seen since seismic activity was first catalogued...

Pacific Islands Forum winds up by rebuking China nuclear test

The members, apart from Nauru, called on all states undertaking testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles to be transparent.

The world is learning to love the bomb again

The world is learning to love the bomb againDudi KoganThe past year has transformed the nuclear debate: The last US-Russia arms-control treaty expired, Trump ordered nuclear testin...

Nuclear Stockpile Uncertainty Amidst a Continuing Strategic Missile Launch Drought

This article is from the sixth edition (July–September 2026) of 38 North’s quarterly product, ... The post Nuclear Stockpile Uncertainty Amidst a Continuing Strategic Missile Launc...

On This Day | Sept. 24

In 1996, the United States and other nations signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which sought to ban all nuclear test explosions.