By recreating a nuclear fireball, scientists uncovered unexpected chemistry that could change how radioactive fallout is understood.

Antineutrinos made alongside the production of weapons-grade plutonium could be spotted with existing technology.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better ...

The response comes amid a series of conflicting claims from both sides over the status of ongoing negotiations aimed at ending months of conflict and stabilising the Gulf region.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start negotiations on ...

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

On a dark July morning in 1945, U.S. scientists and military personnel detonated the world's first nuclear bomb in a remote area of New Mexico. The blast unleashed the energy equivalent of 25,000 tons ...

It remains one of the most ironic aspects of modern civilisation that humanity first split the atom to destroy cities, and only later learned to power them through the same process. The nuclear bomb ...

An international research team has achieved an important milestone for astrophysics at GSI/FAIR in Darmstadt: In the CRYRING@ESR storage ring, scientists were able to measure nuclear reactions at ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wouldn't use a nuclear weapon in Iran and that nobody should be allowed to use them. Watch Trump's remarks in the video player above. "We don't need it.

President Trump ruled out using nuclear weapons in Iran on Thursday, saying there’s no need. “Why would I use a nuclear weapon when we’ve totally, in a very conventional way, decimated them without it ...

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