Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled ...

A nuclear escalation in the Middle East would trigger a global catastrophe. Know the physics behind nuclear weapons, and the looming threat of a worldwide nuclear winter.

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...

Gravity nuclear bombs are some of the most dangerous nuclear weapons ever created. These kinds of bombs, also known as ...

Work on nuclear physics in the early twentieth century moved across borders, institutes and private letters. Lise Meitner was part of that movement for decades, first in Vienna, then in Berlin, later ...

Last week, Deep Fission broke ground on a pilot program to bury small modular reactors underground in Parsons, Kansas. This project is the first of its kind in the United States, and comes as part of ...

Hyman Rickover was sent by the Navy to learn about the new nuclear power. He worked on both commercial and naval nuclear propulsion. Admiral Rickover served in the Navy 63 years and is the ...

A disturbing map from the Cold War era has emerged, offering a grim projection for the United States following nuclear conflict, with estimates suggesting that as many as 75% of residents in the ...