Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, ...

The printing press, the lightbulb, the internal combustion engine and the computer moved the world into a mostly better ...

A former Navy official described Iran's Strait of Hormuz leverage as, "in some ways, a more powerful weapon than a nuclear ...

The number of hibakusha or atomic bomb survivors nationwide has decreased by more than 70,000 over the past decade, falling ...

Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II, is now a museum exhibit.

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 ...

Iran is extremely unlikely to produce functional nuclear bombs in the current environment—and certainly not quickly. The disruptions from Israeli and U.S. operations (including the ongoing strikes), ...

Departing in the predawn darkness of Aug. 6, 1945, a modified B-29, designated with radio call sign ‘Dimples 82’, was carrying a single bomb. Enola Gay was about to change the world. Approximately a ...

For most of the past three decades, one might almost have said the United Kingdom had a glowing record on nuclear non-proliferation: Britain was the only major nuclear power to operate a minimum ...