CONTENT WARNING: This article contains descriptions of nuclear weapons effects, including disturbing accounts of the victims. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb ever ...

In a YouTube video, WIRED interviewed Alex Wellerstein, a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in order to find out more about the sequence of events and physical effects produced by a ...

Ankit Panda is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC, USA, and author of The New Nuclear Age (Polity, 2025). At a time of growing catastrophic risks posed ...

The U.S. president can order a nuclear launch without consulting anyone, including Congress, and U.S. nuclear weapons have ...

The U.S. military joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran on June 21, targeting nuclear sites at Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. It remains unclear ...

Thankfully, no party has used nuclear weapons in war since 1945. Treaties limiting nuclear tests and weapon inventories during the Cold War highlighted the pragmatism of world leaders. As memories ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Chinese military researchers recently reported that multiple nuclear strikes on a single target will produce greater damage than a single blast from a larger warhead to destroy hard ...

Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...