Iran lashes out at Austria after a report claims Tehran has an advanced nuclear weapons program, sparking diplomatic tensions ...

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels ...

Since the tail end of World War II, humanity has struggled to deal with its newfound ability to harness the tremendous energy ...

In the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural ...

"In outer space we wouldn't have a Z machine, we would have a nuclear device," Moore said. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the Z machine is humanity's most energetic pulsed power machine ...

Fusion energy startup Realta Fusion, a University of Wisconsin-Madison partner, announced they are moving into the next phase ...

It wasn’t a balloon. Scientists had exploded a nuclear device hundreds of meters below the Nevada desert, equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT. The ensuing fireball reached pressures and ...

Radiation from a nuclear explosion can vaporize the surface of an asteroid and change its trajectory, a new study finds. An X-ray pulse may be able to vaporize the surface of an asteroid and ...

Physicists have demonstrated all the ingredients of a nuclear clock — a device that keeps time by measuring tiny energy shifts inside an atomic nucleus. Such clocks could lead to vast ...

Iran is pursuing research that has put it in a better position to launch a nuclear-weapons program, according to a new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies. The shift in Washington’s view of ...

That time the Cold War was at its peak and the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR would just do anything to sabotage each other's plans, and China detonated its first nuclear device in 1964.