If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and ...

Project 2025 opens the door to above-ground detonations, which were banned in 1963. We can’t endanger our children again. | ...

An AI that surpasses humans in virtually every intellectual domain “would amount to the most precarious technological ...

For the past 25 years, the Atomic Museum has been trying to ascertain the true identity of the woman in Don English’s famous ...

The federally-funded study found that about a quarter of Navajo women and infants had high levels of the highly radioactive ...

This week countries and communities converge in New York for the 3rd Meeting of State Parties on the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), with multiple side events to address the ...

Cold War bomb testing was part of a massive increase in the number of nuclear weapons, which peaked at more than 60,000. After nuclear war was barely avoided during the Cuban missile crisis ...

Reading all the news in my temporary flat at Cambridtge University, where my wife is on a year’s sabbatical leave, I’m able ...

Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation’s nuclear arsenal after World War II, had just begun inching ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

The late Senator and presidential candidate John McCain once said: “The only thing worse than bombing Iran is letting Iran ...