In 1954, the United States detonated Castle Bravo at Bikini Atoll expecting a far smaller blast, but the weapon exploded with a 15-megaton yield and became the largest nuclear test in U.S. history.

In northwest North Korea, Mount Mantap became the center of the country’s nuclear testing program between 2006 and 2017, when six underground detonations were carried out beneath the mountain. The ...

Okuma is the closest town to the three nuclear reactors that melted down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on March 11, 2011. On that day, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami destroyed the ...

Hidden beneath a busy university campus in the south of England lies a nuclear bunker war room, built for emergency planning during the Cold War. At the time of global political tension, England was ...

On February 28, 1953, scientists James Watson and Francis Crick announced they had worked out the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule that carries ...

Does a video show a nuclear test carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Iran? No, that's not true: The video clip shows a nuclear test in the Nevada desert in 1957. The ...

Satellite imagery shows that Iran’s Taleghan 2 site, long tied to its nuclear program, ...

A senior U.S. official offered new details Tuesday night about an alleged nuclear bomb test conducted by China in June 2020. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Yeaw spoke at a Hudson Institute ...

TerraPower’s project in Wyoming, which uses novel technology, is the first new commercial reactor to receive federal approval in nearly a decade.

TerraPower, a start-up founded by Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, is set to build a new kind of nuclear power plant in Wyoming ...

Satellite imagery shows a prized hardened facility at Iran's Parchin military complex with three massive impact points in a ...