The aircraft flew toward Novaya Zemlya, a Russian archipelago located within the Arctic Circle. The Tu-95V carried an RDS-220 ...

FILE - The first U.S. atom bomb explodes during a test in Alamogordo, N.M., July 16, 1945. The cloud went 40,000 feet in the air, as viewed by an automatic camera six miles away from the site. (AP ...

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

Aug. 6 and Aug. 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60 million-degree ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago. Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan Peace ceremonies in ...

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

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 miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived. The glass door ...

An original 1945 training version of the devastating weapon "Little Boy" is going under the hammer. The post Would you launch ...