When a nuclear explosion or accident occurs, time is critical. Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have ...

PM, a siren pierced the silence at a remote Idaho test site. What responders found inside the SL-1 reactor would mark the first fatal nuclear accident on American soil ...

Determined to speak for herself, Teruko Yahata resolved to convey the cruelty and sorrow in her own words, in English, rather ...

While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being ...

Kazumi Matsui said the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East meant a growing acceptance of nuclear weapons.

The first series of thermonuclear tests took place on Nov. 1, 1952, on the small Pacific island of Elugelab at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The explosion yielded an energy equivalent of 10 ...

For decades, Pakistan's military has wielded its nuclear arsenal not as a deterrent, but as a diplomatic cudgel - a tool to ...

Far from collapsing, the nuclear taboo remains strong and by some indicators is getting stronger as a result of developments ...

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two ...

Nuclear boffin Alex Wellerstein explained what to expect if you're ever caught in the crossfire of an atomic bomb - and ...