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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

The "Fat Man" atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most significant and terrifying ...

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The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, signalling an unprecedented threat of global catastrophe.

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Israeli military strikes hit Iran's Khondab Heavy Water Research Reactor, a project under construction that had not begun operating, and damaged the nearby plant that makes heavy water, the U.N.

If repurposed into the advanced reactor fuel cycle, the U.S. government would dilute plutonium prior to releasing it, and the entire fuel cycle would be subject to strict safeguards.

However, there is a key difference between atomic weapons and thermonuclear weapons, such as the H-Bomb, because the latter uses nuclear fusion in addition to fission reactions.