After the successful nuclear detonations on top of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Soviet Union was slow to react and focus its resources on nuclear research. However, thanks to successful espionage ...

Even eighty years after the first nuclear bomb test, the consequences still haunt people all around the world. Radioactive fallout hasn’t just vanished; instead, it continues to affect the health of ...

Portions of this article were originally published on Feb. 9, 2022. It has been updated with additional information. IDAHO ...

Thanks in large part to such initiatives, U.S. efforts to combat proliferation over the last 60 years have succeeded more often than they have failed. Only nine states possess nuclear weapons, and ...

In fact, it was only shortly after the detonation of the first atomic bomb that the concept of nuclear engines became a serious research topic. Since then, there have been a number of NASA projects to ...

In a bid to maintain its weapons programme even after its war with Israel, Iran reportedly carried out an undeclared missile ...

No energy technology has been more revolutionary than nuclear power. While Tucker Carlson has attributed nuclear energy to demons created at some unknown date, the actual start of the nuclear period ...

Berlyn Brixner said he was never told the new detonation time, but seconds before the blast his camera powered up, so he knew ...

PRANAY VADDI is a Senior Nuclear Fellow at the Center for Nuclear Security Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2022 to 2025, he served as Senior Director for Arms Control, ...

For years, the world's attention has fixated on Iran's nuclear ambitions, yet it was Israel, the first and only Middle Eastern state to acquire atomic weapons, that executed a remarkable feat of ...

The Air Force's B-21 Raider fleet expands as Spartan joins flight testing, addressing America's critical need for more ...

China is projected to build around 1,500 nuclear bombs by 2035. Russia has around 5,459 weapons, the world's largest stockpile. This is the first time in its history that the US, which has 5,044 ...