Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on January 7. Check what happened ...

We learn of his role during the tense early years of the Cold War. Complete invasion of Western Europe by the Soviets was at ...

Bombshell shows how the government tried to minimize the effects of radiation and prevent independent reporting through ...

This month, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago is scheduled to announce whether the hands of ...

America's 450 nuclear missile silos exist, at least in part, to be destroyed in a nuclear attack. USA TODAY breaks down the ...

Wars come and go, but some aircraft never seem to leave the fight. While new platforms cycle through development and ...

The Cold War produced experimental systems that pushed technology and risk to the limit, and some of them still stand out for their sheer destructive potential. This video revisits four of the most ...

This profile is part of a series on students who have received fall research awards to pursue faculty-mentored, independent projects. In 2024, during a spring break training trip with the rowing team ...

What happens when the United States tries to build a missile shield so ambitious that Russia and China start dreaming up weapons that no defense can stop? Two demonstrations of Russian weapons ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols, continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...