Behind closed doors with the experts who study the end of the world—and what they know about humanity’s capacity for survival ...

Whether for good or ill, Alfred’s weapons have contributed to the depopulation of the world.

If Alfred Bernhard Nobel, the Swedish inventor who instituted the prestigious global Award, the Nobel Prize, were ...

Although there have been countless missile tests, the last nuclear detonation was eight years, four months, and 11 days ago.

The Soviet Union built the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, but just before its test, engineers deliberately reduced its explosive power by half. This video explains why the bomb was never ...

An unattended package which triggered a bomb squad call-out was found to be a television in a box, police have confirmed. Emergency services were called to Scotland Street, in Sheffield, at about ...

Imagine if you will, a low-cost, small weapons system. It could fly stealthily into enemy territory, not being mistaken for a bomber or any kind of missile. And then it could detonate a nuclear weapon ...

Moscow — Three people, including two police officers, were killed in an explosion in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian investigators said, just days after a car bomb killed a high-ranking general not far ...

VIENNA (AP) — In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that the U.S. would resume nuclear ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...