Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over ...

A new tool shows the catastrophic impact of a nuclear strike as Russia deploys its “unstoppable” Oreshnik missile, putting ...

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons bans nuclear arms and mandates their destruction, but none of the nine ...

When J. Robert Oppenheimer witnessed the first successful atomic test in 1945, he understood instantly that the world had changed forever. The weapon he helped create ended World War II—but also ...

Review of “A Doctor’s Sword” by Bob Jackson. "Some lives are crowded with incident. Cork-born doctor Aidan McCarthy’s was a ...

Vladimir Putin has fueled 'doomsday' fears as he touts unstoppable nuclear torpedo that could 'swallow everything.' ...

Routine reactor emissions pose no meaningful health risk to the US workers and population, a health physicist and a nuclear ...

Here’s a look at Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Since 2003, worldwide concern over Iran’s nuclear program has increased as Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) spar over investigation ...

Donald Trump is plotting to turn Britain into a ‘nuclear launchpad’, according to a startling report in the Daily ...

While we wait for Season 2, these are the burning questions I have after the Season 1 finale of Vince Gilligan's Apple TV sci ...

Former Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) chairman Anil Kakodkar has allayed fears that a nuclear device, lost in an avalanche ...

We’re once again approaching the annual resetting of the Doomsday Clock. Last January, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, a group of very smart people, moved the ...