As the United States prepared new nuclear designs for postwar testing, scientists faced a challenge: gamma-ray experiments ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United ...

The quote is by English author and historian Caroline Playne reflecting on the summer of 1914. The Great War saw astounding ...

As Russia threatens nuclear attacks on Ukraine and NATO, and prototypes a nuclear-armed spacecraft, European space powers are ...

Hiroshima, Japan — Koko Kondo was returning from the Vatican, where she had sat beside Pope Leo XIV and delivered the closing ...

The skies were strangely empty. For months, Japan had lived in fear of the American bombers that came each night — cities ...

While the significance of testing nuclear weapons dwindled over 60 years ago, the terrifying circumstances that brought that ...

On this 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is worth reflecting on the horrors of history ushered in with the nuclear age.

A new Fallout exhibit at the National Atomic Testing Museum blends nuclear history with Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic universe ...

THE heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis had raced across the Pacific with components of the first atomic bomb. But two torpedoes ...

If you are going to build a Peace Pagoda anywhere in the world, there would be few more appropriate locations than in ...

After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...