The airing of the disturbing footage on state media caused speculation on social media about the motives behind the broadcast ...

When a nuclear accident happens, it’s vital that scientists have accurate fallout models.

That was the moment when human beings first unleashed the power of the nucleus in an immense, blinding ball of fire above a gloomy stretch of desert in the Jornada del Muerto basin in New Mexico.

An Iranian state television channel has reportedly blamed an "editing mistake" after briefly airing footage that appeared to ...

Space-based nuclear weapons are a serious matter, and one that deserves the very highest level of national attention.

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory study shows that the formation of radioactive fallout is more complex than some ...

On August 6, 1945, the US bomber Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb ever used in military combat on the Japanese city of ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Chernobyl Explosion: 40 years later, disaster still shapes nuclear safety The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

By recreating a nuclear fireball, scientists uncovered unexpected chemistry that could change how radioactive fallout is ...