During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

Once China produced weapons-grade uranium, it assembled its first atomic bomb in as little as three to five weeks. Iran may ...

It was 12 September 1933. A little under 12 years later, the US dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, killing an estimated 135,000 people. The path from Szilard’s idea to its deadly realisation is ...

More new versions of the B61 nuclear bomb could be on the horizon for the U.S. military ... The B61-13 will leverage the B61-12 design, including the TKA, but with a higher yield, something we will ...