The Doomsday Clock may have just moved forward by a few seconds as the looming threat of a nuclear war between the United and ...

K eys, phones, headphones, socks, thermonuclear weapons – some things just always seem to go missing. Believe it or not, ...

The weapon design used in the Hiroshima bomb fired a mass of uranium into another to reach critical mass. A different design, used in Nagasaki, used conventional explosives to compress a nuclear ...

This article explores the sources of enriched uranium for US nuclear power and highlights the increasing dependence on ...

The next few months will be the last chance to prevent a nuclear Iran. Right now, an Iranian breakout is still detectable and ...

The U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb, “Little Boy,” on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It was a uranium-based bomb with an explosive power of about 15 kilotons, which would be considered ...

The basic design of a nuclear bomb is shockingly easy to find online. Actually building one is an entirely different matter. This article will run through the basics to give you a sense of what's ...