Today (March 1) marks the 71st anniversary of the Bikini Atoll detonation – the strongest nuclear bomb the United States ever ...

The economics debate of nuclear v renewable energy has distracted politicians, media and the public from the hazards of ...

Remember that 1963 comedic caper movie, “It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? Okay, maybe not. It was director Stanley Kramer’s ...

In a post on X, the official account’s statement only read that “the IAEA team at the Chornobyl site heard an explosion” and ...

The goal of conducting a fast-tracked nuclear test can only be political, not scientific. The United States has much to lose ...

A secret US nuclear weapons facility near Las Vegas may soon begin testing live bombs again as global tensions may be pushing ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un detonated a massive explosion at a groundbreaking ceremony in the country's capital on Sunday as part of the final phase of an initiative to build thousands of new ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a live test could come... Step inside the secret lab where America tests ...

where workers secure 177 high-level waste tanks from the site’s previous work producing plutonium for the atomic bomb; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, a Superfund contamination site ...

The $2 billion Scorpius machine takes a series of X-ray images of the plutonium as a shockwave from a non-nuclear explosion passes through it. This process tests the aging of a bomb's plutonium ...