President Donald Trump rejected a military plan for more comprehensive strikes on Iran’s nuclear program that would have ...

The new assessment helps create a clearer picture of what the combined Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran achieved. The bombings deeply damaged Fordo — considered by the Iranians to be their ...

Oak Ridge researchers are converting nuclear waste into components for targeted alpha therapy, a cancer treatment that ...

Author and historian Iain MacGregor profiles a diverse range of players in his latest book about the first atomic bomb used in warfare. MacGregor uses visually enticing description and lively ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Nuclear weapons have not been used in war since 1945, although there have been close calls.

Generations of survivors of the world’s first nuclear bomb test have been excluded from any federal compensation.

In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an ...

We can’t know exactly how events would have unfolded had dissent been amplified, but we must now demand a safer future.

Highlights this week include playwright Charles Randolph Wright’s hip hop-themed interracial love story and “The Gospel at ...

Key Takeaways Children who lived closer to Coldwater Creek had a higher cancer risk later in lifeThe area was polluted by nuclear waste during World War II from an atomic bombPeople who lived within ...

The first atomic bomb was tested that morning, the result of the U.S. Manhattan Project to develop the ultimate weapon. Just weeks later the U.S. would drop atomic bombs on Japan, destroying the ...

On July 16, 1945, the Nuclear Age erupted into being, with the atomic bomb’s first test, code-named Trinity, in the desert of ...