A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation.

The simplicity of the glide bomb kit has enabled mass production, with Russia reportedly manufacturing thousands monthly at a tiny fraction of the cost of missiles like the Kh-101.

On a grim October day in 1961, the skies echoed with the unique roar of a single Tupolev Tu-95, soaring with a weight more ...

The Tsar Bomba, detonated in 1961, remains the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built and tested. This video explores the design, construction, and detonation of the 50-megaton bomb — a weapon so ...

Amira El-Fekki is a Newsweek reporter based in Dubai. Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East. She has in depth knowledge of Arab communities and has covered human rights ...

Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the 1950s and 60s, Mary Dickson was among the millions of American schoolchildren taught to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear war. “I just remember ...

Charles Oppenheimer knows his family name comes with a heavy responsibility. He's the grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who led the Manhattan Project, becoming the father of the atomic ...

Nuclear testing wasn’t the only thing that went underground in the 1950s in Las Vegas. The true identity of the woman in the Atomic Age’s most iconic photograph was also buried. On May 24, 1957, a ...

The Tsar Bomba, made by the Soviet Union in 1961, is the world's most powerful nuclear bomb. Its 50-megaton yield is 3,000 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb.

Lauren Anne Constance receives funding from The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Foundation Endowment Committee. Known as hibakusha in ...

When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...