The nuclear tests conducted by the United States and the then USSR (present day Russia) during the Cold War-era have left ...

Here is a look at North Korea’s nuclear capabilities and the history of its weapons program. 1985 North Korea signs the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). 1993 The International Atomic Energy ...

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ puts clock at 89 seconds from nuclear apocalypse, closer to ‘midnight’ than even during the ...

While the prospect of a nuclear bomb being dropped on New York City is decidedly slim, the simulation - created by expert ...

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

A program to compensate uranium miners and people who lived downwind of nuclear bomb testing then developed certain cancers ...

During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

Tehran is enriching uranium to up to 60 percent fissile purity, close to the roughly 90 percent required for a nuclear bomb, as per Reuters. But Iran has long denied any nuclear-bomb ambitions ...

When China produced its first batch of weapons-grade HEU in January 1964 for its first nuclear test that fall, all the non-nuclear components ... atomic bomb with the same major features as the United ...

According to an IAEA yardstick, about 42 kilogrammes of uranium enriched to that level is enough in principle, if enriched further, for one nuclear bomb. Grossi said Iran currently had about 200 ...

Languages: English. New Zealanders are expressing frustration after U.S. President Donald Trump credited Americans with splitting the atom in his second inaugural address——an achievement ...

The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945 ... element environmental test (CFEET) facility ...