The two lawmakers questioned the necessity of the nuclear weapons agency's plutonium pit strategy in a letter exclusively ...

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The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

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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 ...

The worlds first hydrogen bomb, codenamed 'Mike'. Nuclear weapons testing conducted by the US at Bikini and Enewtak atolls in ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Shortly before the 80 th anniversary of nuclear attack on Hiroshima early this month, several dozen elementary school students met with atomic bomb survivor and farmer Toshiyuki ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

Newly unclassified documents, released after being processed by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...