The measure could be taken to divert a space rock being monitored by the European Space Agency, which is expected to cross ...

Vladimir Putin addressed Russia's recent change of nuclear doctrine while speaking to TV audiences at his annual Q&A, issuing a warning to the West.

Some media reports and popular accounts on social media have claimed that Israel detonated a low-yield tactical nuclear ...

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 ...

According to the BBC, the asteroid's size means it would have the same power as a nuclear bomb if it were to hit the Earth.

For the basis of comparison ... underground nuclear facilities. The B61’s -11 variant has this deep penetration capability, but is an unguided “dumb bomb”; meanwhile, the proposed B61-13 ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Pantex Deterrence LLC (PXD), the manager and operator of the Pantex Plant outside of Amarillo, announced Tuesday the completion of the last ...

On the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the cities' hibakusha demanded that Japan sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

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.

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. Treaties are collapsing, some nuclear powers ...

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 ...