A global pledge to triple nuclear power capacity by 2050 has drawn support from two more nations, meaning 33 countries now back efforts to expand the world’s fleet of atomic plants.

After World War II, the Communist nation worked desperately to build and test its own bomb, terrified of what might happen if it failed. Indeed, a Russian nuclear scientist who attended the Bikini ...

The quiet expansion of Beijing’s remote nuclear weapons complex, Lop Nur, points to years of preparation for a potential ...

That paradigm may soon shift, thanks to the potential development of the program known as the Golden Dome missile defense initiative. Although extremely complex and challenging, it offers the ...

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 ...

China has expanded and modernized its nuclear arsenal at an astounding rate — and has refused to discuss arms control unless ...

Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new ...

The trial included first-of-its-kind thermal preconditioning of the bomb before carriage on an F-35 fighter jet.

A recent study has unveiled a 10,000-year-old impact crater in China, providing evidence of a colossal meteorite strike that ...

As a result, the latest statistics from Seer suggest that thyroid cancer cases have now stabilised in the US. For example, in ...

Just because animals and plants are returning to the Chernobyl nuclear accident site, it does not mean there were no wildlife ...

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s hints at reviving tests of nuclear weapons recall a terrifying chapter of history — one ...