In 1957, scientists detonated a nuclear bomb under the Nevada desert — and launched a steel manhole cover at unimaginable ...

When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models.

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Vladimir Putin flexed his nuclear missiles just north of UK waters.

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

Return to Fukushima' and 'Nuclear Is Not The Solution'—lay out the perils and ugly history of nuclear power.

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, an eerie silence fell over the desert at an Air Force base near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Anticipation hung thick in ...

By recreating a nuclear fireball, scientists uncovered unexpected chemistry that could change how radioactive fallout is understood.

It was supposed to be a routine exercise. Perhaps an odd phrase to use when describing the handling of nuclear weapons, but during the Vietnam War, it was standard procedure to regularly load and ...

The current crisis over Iran’s nuclear program has reached an extraordinary level, climaxing shockingly with President Trump’s April 7 threat to destroy Iran’s “civilization” if it did not comply with ...