Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters ...

There are several ways to build a nuclear weapon. This videographic shows the process used to make a bomb with enriched uranium, utilising nuclear fission. This method could be considered by Iran, ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe was no longer realistic, leaving much of America’s nuclear arsenal ...

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 ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

The Nuclear Age will appeal to a broad audience, both newcomers to the topic and those who are conversant but not academic ...

Oct 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with ...

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...

For the first time, Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters have taken the lead in NATO’s annual nuclear readiness drills. Known as Steadfast Noon, the alliance’s yearly nuclear deterrent exercise runs ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — 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 ...