Opponents of the project say it is costly, will take far too long to strengthen Ukraine’s battered power supply and opens the ...

Oppenheimer is widely regarded as the father of the atomic bomb, but he didn’t do it alone. Scores of scientists were exiled from Germany, as anti-Jewish laws proliferated. America welcomed many of ...

The military wanted to test the electromagnetic impacts of nuclear weapons in space. In 1962 they lit up the sky.

Evgeny Velikhov's many accomplishments in reducing the threat from nuclear weapons—during and after the Cold War—are ...

A time bomb has been set to the man-made doomsday. Last week the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists (BAS) advanced the doomsday ...

Everyone knows the story of the first atomic bombs that were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 ...

Here’s the main problem in a nutshell: The technologist is not an ethicist, and the ethicist is not a technologist.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Over the years, we’ve heard hundreds of time about how we have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world. But is that ...