The atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 wasn’t just powerful - it was built with a design as simple as a gun. Known as “Little Boy,” the weapon worked by firing one piece of uranium into another ...

Nuclear reactors were originally designed to make bombs. They still do, in what are called dual-use reactors. These produce plutonium while simultaneously generating electricity. Chernobyl was a ...

China has recently made a significant move in weapon technology with the successful detonation of a new type of hydrogen-based explosive device. Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s ...

Nuclear experts say this famous photo of an apparent mushroom cloud rising above the city of Hiroshima is not what it appears to be. The towering plume is actually billowing smoke rising up from the ...

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

After three decades of uneasy slumber since the end of the Cold War, atomic weapons are back in the headlines. There were Vladimir Putin’s threats to use them in Ukraine or send them up into space.

Japanese men carry a victim of the atomic bomb in Nagasaki in this August 1945 file photo by Japanese photographer Yosuke Yamahata. via REUTERS Eighty years ago, in one of the most consequential ...