Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an ...

A US official says a seismic station in Kazakhstan collected evidence of an alleged China nuclear test at Lop Nur in June 2020.

C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...

Right now, there are over 400 nuclear power plants operating in 20 countries. Could they be ticking time bombs? Possibly ...

From Trinity’s fallout to a New Mexico school underground, “Nuclear Family” traces how the bomb reshaped one family and a ...

The Rulison test — conducted at a depth of 8,425 feet — was the deepest subterranean nuclear-bomb detonation conducted in U.S. history.

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing ...

President Donald Trump ordered the Department of War to resume testing nuclear weapons “on an equal basis” with Russia and China on Thursday, a practice halted by the U.S. in 1992. The announcement ...

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan also said that the idea that US or Israeli airstrikes on Iran could lead to regime change was "a pipe ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...