A Nuclear Bomb in Space: Not Science Fiction Anymore Chinese researchers have just published a remarkable study outlining a ...

2. At 0530, 16 July 1945, in a remote section of the Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, the first full-scale test was made of ...

Iran’s top officials still say the country will forgo nuclear weapons, but they are warning that could change.

For nearly eight years, North Korea has not announced another nuclear test at Mount Mantap. But the ground beneath the ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic bomb? The truth is that National Socialist Germany could not possibly have ...

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 ...

Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine is the world’s largest pulsed-power facility. The machine, located in a fenced-in warehouse on lab property, employs about 300 scientists and technologists.

As long as we have nuclear weapons, the job of ending humanity will continue to be as easy as the push of a button—or an AI ...

In two separate papers published in Physical Review Letters, researchers investigated the nuclear reactions that take place inside supernovae and X-ray bursts—two of the universe's most powerful ...

Nuclear submarines are one leg of our nuclear triad, so are they built to withstand a nuclear attack? The answer is complicated. Here's what we know.

North Korea’s six underground nuclear tests may have done more than produce short-lived tremors.

Iran has “no choice” but to develop a nuclear bomb, a media outlet linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said — the latest threat to the peace deal. The article, titled “No choice but to ...