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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses a grave threat to his country and vowed to further bolster his nuclear weapons program ...

Barack Obama is the first American president to visit Hiroshima since the nuclear attack on the city. In his speech in May ...

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An asteroid with the power to unleash an explosion one hundred times greater than the atomic bomb has triggered global space ...

The United States is estimated to have spent more than $400 billion on the kinds of antimissile goals that the president now ...

Iran has accumulated a vast amount of enriched uranium, which is "very, very close" to weapon grade, International Atomic Energy Agency ... required for a nuclear bomb, as per Reuters.

According to an International Atomic Energy Agency yardstick, about 42 kg of uranium enriched to that level is enough in principle, if enriched further, for one nuclear bomb. Grossi said Iran ...

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A photo supposedly showing the "atomic shadow" of a human and a ladder that was created when the U.S. dropped atomic bombs above Japan at the end of World War II has been frequently shared online ...

An enormous bomb cyclone will slam Ireland late Thursday, bringing intense rain and wind on its way to delivering a separate blow to the United Kingdom. Damaging winds are expected across a wide ...