During the Vietnam war, an accident on the USS Ticonderoga led to a B43 thermonuclear weapon disappearing beneath the waves ...

I admit I am confused. Trump, not the US Congress, declared war on Iran to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon by using its civilian nuclear reactor program to make a bomb. Nuclear weapons are bad ...

Confusion on whether Iran truly needed only “two weeks to four weeks” to make a nuclear weapon, as President Donald Trump suggested on Monday, hangs over the ongoing U.S. and Israeli war on the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Donald Trump says he’s bombing Iran to prevent the regime from obtaining a nuclear ...

Imagine a 150-kiloton nuclear bomb exploded in the city closest to you. Do you know how the city, its surrounding region, and its inhabitants would be affected? If you can't think of much more than "a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The 1945 Trinity nuclear test fused desert sand and bomb-tower materials into trinitite—a glassy substance unlike anything humans had created before.

Since eight years ago when President Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal with Tehran, Iran has accumulated 22,000 pounds, or 11 tons, of enriched uranium. But the fate of Iran’s stockpile remains a ...

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un, front right, visits a new facility to produce ...