At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters ...

Instead, high-energy radiation and electromagnetic pulses dominate, posing serious risks to satellites, spacecraft, and ...

Introduced in 1960, the American MK41 hydrogen bomb remains the highest-yield nuclear weapon ever placed in active service.

Decades after the Cold War ended, U.S. defense planners concluded that deploying massive megaton-yield gravity bombs over Europe was no longer realistic, leaving much of America’s nuclear arsenal ...

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

President Donald Trump's comments Thursday suggesting the United States will restart its testing of nuclear weapons upends decades of American policy in regards to the bomb, but come as Washington's ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Few scenarios scare pundits and policymakers as much as the prospect of nuclear proliferation. Russia’s willingness to dangle the threat of deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its war against ...

The Nuclear Age will appeal to a broad audience, both newcomers to the topic and those who are conversant but not academic ...

"A House of Dynamite" looks at what happens if a nuclear weapon were launched at the U.S. The new Kathryn Bigelow movie streams Friday, Oct. 24, on Netflix. What's fact and what's fiction in "A House ...