There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

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

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled ...

A senior U.S. official offered new details Tuesday night about an alleged nuclear bomb test conducted by China in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw spoke at a Hudson Institute ...

A 1960 explosion involving a nuclear-tipped missile at McGuire Air Force Base left radioactive contamination that required decades of cleanup. Wrightstown, NJ – A Cold War missile accident at what is ...

Social media-fueled theories of World War 3 have raised questions over what US states are safe should nuclear war happen.

Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, exploded 15 years ago on March 11, 2011, touching off a nuclear catastrophe Japan ...

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

The US military has lost six nuclear warheads in Broken Arrow incidents, with weapons dropped in waters near Tybee Island and the Mediterranean Sea remaining underwater and unrecovered to this day ...

In January, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set their Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight. This is the closest in its history the clock has been to midnight, signifying potential ...