During the Cold War, the Soviet Union explored a weapon so extreme it sounds fictional: launching nuclear warheads into low ...

The authority to launch nuclear weapons depends on a small card carried by the president at all times. In at least one ...

Aotearoa’s favourite ukulele trio The Nukes are back with a brand new kids song and it is loud, proud, and full of vegetables ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Doug Mills for AP) President Donald Trump sounded off on NATO on Wednesday morning for being cheap, ineffective, ...

The sponge metaphor first emerged in 1978 when the Air Force’s top general announced a new plan to base cutting-edge nuclear missiles in the Southwest. The “Missile, Experimental,” or MX, a powerful ...

Nuclear weapons tests were once a regular occurrence, but most countries haven’t tested in decades, following the adoption of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996. Now, that moratorium ...

The Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russia, would be crucial to powering Ukraine’s postwar recovery. By Constant Méheut Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine ...

NuScale is an advanced nuclear company aiming to build small modular reactors (SMRs). It is the only U.S. nuclear company with an NRC-approved SMR design. Without a first customer, NuScale's future is ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

A vital power line is back up and running at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), the facility that has been at the center of pervasive concerns over nuclear safety in Ukraine throughout the ...

The application covers six potential reactor technologies, specifically four SMRs and two non-light-water designs. (Representational image)Dark Energy US-based nuclear energy firm Duke Energy has ...

A senior Japanese official’s suggestion that Japan should possess nuclear weapons has reignited debate over whether the country could—or would—break with a decades-old taboo in response to an ...