You know we're living in interesting times when "nuke the ocean floor" makes it onto the list of climate solutions. A new ...

A chance discovery led officials in northern England to uncover more than 100 practice bombs from World War II buried underneath a playground.

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 U.S. government wants to select "disparate" locations where it could eventually make bomb-grade uranium again.

Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England ...

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 ...

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

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s inspection of a nuclear material facility indicates the nation's continued effort to bolster its nuclear arsenal. Despite President Donald Trump’s readiness ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded by a group of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.Originally ...