The warplane-dropped nuclear gravity bomb known as the B61 has been fully modernized with a new precision guidance system, the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration ...

Described as the most expensive nuclear bomb project ever, the B61-12 combines enhanced precision with a lower yield, making it the most versatile and usable nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal.

For more than two decades, Iran’s relationship with the West has largely been defined by developments in the country’s nuclear programme and efforts to stop it from getting a bomb. Tehran has ...

While the 1950s was a time of truly unusual and fast-paced innovation in military aerospace, one of the more bizarre projects ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

North Korea may test a nuclear weapon this weekend, according to U.S. government sources. The North has reportedly installed a nuclear device inside one of the tunnels at its Punggye-ri ...

Gertz quotes an additional snippet from NNSA which states that “The B61 family of bombs has over 50 years of service, making it the oldest and most versatile weapon in the enduring U.S. nuclear ...

At the end of the Cold War, global powers reached the consensus that the world would be better off with fewer nuclear weapons. That era is now over.

Remember the plot to the 1984 sci-fi blockbuster "The Terminator"? "There was a nuclear war," a character explains. "Defense network computers. New... powerful ...

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Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively ...

On a blustery Friday afternoon at Camp Rilea, over 200 Army Reserve soldiers from across the country trained for a situation ...