There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...
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 ...
UN Nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said that Iran holds 440.9 kg (972 pounds) of highly ...
Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled ...
The United States has revealed new details about a Chinese underground nuclear test that it claims happened nearly six years ago. The disclosure comes as tensions rise over global nuclear arsenals ...
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 ...
Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, exploded 15 years ago on March 11, 2011, touching off a nuclear catastrophe Japan ...
Social media-fueled theories of World War 3 have raised questions over what US states are safe should nuclear war happen.
The Cold War left many inglorious legacies. The Runit dome is a good example. From the outside, it looks almost too ...
When it comes to marking anniversaries of the atomic bomb, there are a few obvious choices. July 16, 1945, was the date of the Trinity test, the first nuclear explosion, and has been used by some as ...
The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.