During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, ...

The National Museum of Nuclear Science and History is holding its Spyglass Festival January 15-17, 2026. The festival ...

The US began removing its nuclear weapons from Britain around 2007, ending a “contentious presence spanning more than half a ...

As I sat in a darkened cinema in 1998, mesmerised and unnerved by the opening nuclear bomb explosions that framed the beginning of Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla, it felt like I was watching the most ...

While the book is promoted as focusing on nuclear power, only section four, the last 147 pages of the 388-page text (followed by 40 pages of references), recounts the history and hoped-for renaissance ...

Albuquerque has close ties to the birth of the Atomic Age sitting between Los Alamos to the north, where scientists created the first atomic weapons, and the Trinity Site to the south, where they ...

The prospect of nuclear war doesn’t get much attention these days outside of think tanks, intelligence agencies, and generals’ quarters. The world’s Cold War nuclear nightmare faded with the collapse ...

Keeping good records is a cardinal rule of bureaucracy, and at government agencies routinely hiding the sensitive ones, and utterly suppressing the most embarrassing ones, is the prevailing general ...

The movie “Oppenheimer,” about the making of the nuclear bomb, opened last week, and the subject matter has spurred an unavoidable comparison with artificial intelligence. Leaders at AI companies like ...

Nuclear power seems to be having a moment. As the Trump administration methodically throws up roadblocks to slow, if not stop, carbon-free renewable solar and wind power, carbon-free nuclear appears ...