Resurgent interest in atomic power means the world’s second-biggest provider of enriched uranium is expanding even in Germany ...

Throughout history, the idea of misplacing a nuclear weapon may sound like a plot twist in an espionage novel. The United ...

In his Atomic series, artist James Stanford showcases "the spectacle and the horror" of growing up near a nuclear bomb ...

Nuclear weapons are incredibly complex ... Despite digging a hole more than 70 feet deep to recover the whole bomb, crews recovered only the "primary" fission section. The "secondary" fusion section ...

So why not the atomic bomb? Nazi Germany ... These revelations touched off a frenzy of scientific work on fission around the world. The German "uranium project" began in earnest shortly after ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...

Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the ... The company, Deep Fission, signed a deal on Tuesday with data center developer Endeavour to build 2 ...

Perhaps most importantly, Germany developed gas centrifuges, which are more efficient than calutrons and gaseous diffusion ...

Pre-Atomic Age scientists knew about this ... importance in two side effects of the new fusion techniques. In fission bombs, a great deal of the uranium is scattered before it can react.

A grandson of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb,” has visited Hiroshima and urged Japan to defuse tensions among the world’s leading nuclear powers. “The tension that ...