Tens of thousands of people died instantly. An entire city was destroyed in the flash of a single bomb. Today, some 12,700 nuclear weapons remain in the world’s arsenals, with about 90 percent owned ...

Nuclear weapons are still here—and they’re still an existential risk. Nine countries possess nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel, and ...

Exploding a nuclear bomb above a huge asteroid could vaporize its surface using X-rays, pushing the space rock away from Earth.

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There's no denying that vacuum bombs are atrocious weapons of war and ... Internally, these bombs are powered by the splitting of a heavy atomic nucleus into two lighter nuclei, a system known ...

How close were the Nazis to developing an atomic ... heavy isotope of hydrogen—instead of water or graphite. This was not (as one of the many myths associated with the German nuclear weapons ...

As Pyongyang reportedly begins construction of its first nuclear-powered submarine, the question is whether it will be a ...

Each branch compensates for the weaknesses of the other: tanks are well armed and protected ... They are typically associated with nuclear weapons. An army-officer rank that sits above a major ...

The United States still believes that Iran has not decided to build a nuclear weapon ... had a nuclear weapons program. In the past weeks, Israel’s military has inflicted heavy losses on ...

Four years ago, a man widely regarded by Israeli and Western officials as the "father" of Iran's nuclear weapons program was ...

It will take time to see the actual effects of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated ... it to be used in power plants or weapons. However, some reactors that use heavy water can use unrefined uranium ...