As the world marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated in the New Mexican desert, a Nevada congresswoman ...

Alamogordo. The test marked a significant turning point in World War II that left impacts across New Mexico and around the world.

The Associated Press toured the lab where X-energy is making small amounts of fuel for testing. Anyone beyond a magenta-and-yellow chain that warns of radioactivity must wear gowns, two layers of ...

This article appears in the August 2025 print edition with the headline “Damn You All to Hell!” When you buy a book using a ...

Rainbow Warrior Bombing (1985): The French government’s bombing of the Greenpeace vessel in Auckland Harbour galvanised ...

You may have terrible visions of a Geiger counter clicking ominously as you enter your kitchen or putting up a long-term nuclear warning ... all they have to do is look for the symbol. No, not the ...

Astatine is the rarest naturally occurring element on Earth and one of the least studied within the periodic table, mostly ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

Nuclear weapons are returning to Britain for the first time since 1998 – and with them, the kind of demonstrations not seen ...

With the end of the 12 day war, the question of regime change in Iran remains central. There are many scenarios, highlighting different factors and views. Analysts contrast the sweeping 1979 ...

Seventy years ago, on September 17, 1955, a modified Convair B-36 departed Carswell Air Force Base in Texas. Legendary U.S. Air Force test pilot Fitzhugh L. “Fitz” Fulton Jr. was in the cockpit.