Recent talks on renewing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty have centered on continuing the ban on testing of nuclear weapons. Testing can lead to safer nuclear weapons, and since verification of tests is difficult anyway legal testing may help limit the size and number of...

THE POINT OF a test ban treaty is not so much to have a treaty as to put an end to nuclear tests. This is the worthy result apparently achieved by the U.N. General Assembly's vote to adopt the treaty that its negotiating committee,...

North Korea marked the first anniversary of its nuclear test Tuesday with calls on the country's poverty-stricken population to rally around leader Kim Jong Il, praised by state media for pulling off a "truly great miracle."Japan's Cabinet, meanwhile, approved plans to extend economic sanctions over...

The top U.S. general on the Korean Peninsula said Tuesday he believes North Korea might conduct another nuclear test in the future."There is no reason to believe that at some time in the future, when it serves their purposes, that they won't test another one....

Discusses the effects of British nuclear testing in Australia in the 1950's and 1960's.