Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S. Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The U.S. studied that option ...

During the Cold War, scientists developed a controversial nuclear weapon designed to change how nuclear warfare worked. The neutron bomb minimized blast damage while maximizing lethal neutron ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF₆, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It ...