Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is passing Earth. Scientists have studied using nuclear explosions to deflect comets. The goal ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably ...

President's vague "on an equal basis" phrasing could mean continuing scienced-based computer and lab testing or resuming live detonations for the first time since 1992.

Let's break down the real science behind Netflix's new movie "A House of Dynamite," which imagines a nuclear attack on the ...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History offers ‘Science is Everywhere’ camps. The camps are educational, immersive ...

The only countries that will really learn more if [U.S. nuclear] testing resumes are Russia and, to a much greater extent, ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

For fifteen years, from the apex of the Cuban Missile Crisis until 1977, the launch code for America’s Minuteman ...

Before Sputnik – the first satellite – was launched, something unidentified was lighting up the night sky. A new study ties ...

Disasters at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daiichi have made many people scared of nuclear power. The company says their reactor is different.

Harnessing the reaction that powers the stars could offer potentially unlimited carbon-free energy, and the race is hotting ...

A worker fell into the nuclear reactor at the controversial Palisades Power Plant in Michigan, where they drank a little ...