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 ...

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 ...

As the nuclear explosion’s electromagnetic pulse (EMP ... Anyone outside would inhale plutonium, leading to an agonising death just hours later. Survivors would face long-term suffering ...

Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the US nuclear ... than 80 tons of radioactive waste were released by an explosion, spread large amounts of nuclear material over ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has confirmed the explosion. The organization reported that ... 4th reactor in the aftermath of the disaster to contain the uranium, plutonium, and ...

Only one (or possibly two) of the missing bombs was fully assembled at the time it was lost. The total number of confirmed missing weapons is somewhere between five and nine, depending on what ...