As tensions rise between countries, the use of advanced weaponry like vacuum bombs becomes more common. Here's how they ...

This is apparently because thermonuclear weapons are important national secrets and the government did not allow details to be shown. This diagram also appears in the Nuclear Issues Handbook 2020 ...

The third nuclear age has forced strategic thinkers to confront the dilemma of nuclear deterrence anew, this time in a ...

With the damage wrought by these two hurricanes very much in mind, appreciating the power of fission (nuclear) and fusion ...

The electrical grid's failure came a day after top government officials addressed the nation about energy infrastructure ...

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the completion of the first ...

As Pyongyang reportedly begins construction of its first nuclear-powered submarine, the question is whether it will be a ...

Veterans who took part in Britain’s nuclear testing programme during the 1950s and 60s are being honoured by a new memorial.

The analysis highlights the perilous nature of "Broken Arrow" incidents—accidental events involving nuclear weapons. It ...

Here's a Nukemap simulation of what might have been the blast radius and fallout zone of the Goldsboro incident: Both bombs were a thermonuclear design. So instead of just one nuclear core ...

The ability to confine alpha particles within a burning deuterium–tritium plasma is likely to be crucial to the future of fusion power generation. Resonant interactions between alpha particles ...

Cinema’s hardest-working, radioactive reptile stomps into a new age of atomic terror ...