Strings of radars stretching across Canada were built to give early warnings of Soviet bombers coming over the Arctic. The ...

This month marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the detonation of a plutonium device known as "the Gadget" in the Southern New Mexico desert. The test, which sent a giant mushroom cloud ...

More than 160 people are still missing following flash floods in Texas over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, officials ...

Decisive though the American response on Iran may have appeared, it cannot compare with the bombing needed to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear facilities.

Iran’s warhead, developed with the help of Ukrainian nuclear scientist Vyacheslav Danilenko, was an R-265 shock generator assembled in two hemispheres. Its surface was lined with 5-millimeter channels ...

Ogura can still remember that terrible morning in August, 80 years ago. Her older brother, who later died of cancer from ...

The most powerful weapon in the US nuclear arsenal is the B83 nuclear bomb. Developed in the late 1970s and in use since 1983 ...

If a first strike is designed to cripple an adversary’s ability to retaliate, targeting Hampton Roads would do that, author ...

Democracy ensures the 'right people' get the mandate to instill fear in us. This fear should be moderated by justice. That is ...

Downwinders from across Utah are on track to receive compensation for illnesses caused by radiation from nuclear testing as ...

As Iranian officials flail about, arresting hundreds of innocent people and executing "dozens" of alleged spies, now is a ...

A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...