In 1994, astronomers witnessed one of the most dramatic events ever recorded in space when comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter. Traveling at more than 216,000 km/h, the comet broke into 21 ...

Hydrogen bombs cause a bigger explosion, which means the shock waves, blast, heat and radiation all have larger reach than an atomic bomb, according to Edward Morse, a professor of nuclear engineering ...

UN Nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said that Iran holds 440.9 kg (972 pounds) of highly ...

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so ...

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 ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Gravity nuclear bombs are some of the most dangerous nuclear weapons ever created. These kinds of bombs, also known as ...

The National Atomic Testing Museum invites the public to its next “Atomic Stories” presentation, “BREN Tower: The Desert Giant of Atomic Science,” on Saturday, March 14 at 12 p.m.  Delivered ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

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 ...