There has not been a major (or minor) nuclear explosion since the 1960s. This is almost entirely because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled ...

Four nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, exploded 15 years ago on March 11, 2011, touching off a nuclear catastrophe Japan ...

The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

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 ...

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 ...