After two planes collided, three hydrogen bombs hit a Spanish village, and one fell into the sea nearby. Two years later, villagers talked to the BBC about the terrifying accident.

In the eighty years since of the atomic bombings of Japan dozens of opportunities to halt the macabre march of nuclear weapons development have been wasted. Starting with the mistaken U.S ...

Russell is a Science Writer with IFLScience and has a PhD in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology. When the United States Army Air Forces dropped their nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and ...

BOOM BOOM BOOM In researching this article, I spoke to crews of B-52s, B-47s and Vulcans and even chatted on a train with a ...

The belligerents stockpiled nuclear weapons and created aircraft and ships ... the jet bounced on the runway, lost control, and careened off the runway, exploding in a ball of flames.

Scripps News takes you inside a California lab that is ensuring the effectiveness of the United States' nuclear weapons - ...

Plutonium 'pits' and Small Modular Reactors are all part of Energy Secretary Chris Wright's early goals for his department.

If Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons it would likely prompt Saudi Arabia to seek to do likewise. Israel, which is widely believed to have its own nuclear weapons, would also be concerned if ...

Since then, Trump has rarely stopped talking about mitigating the danger of nuclear weapons. In his first presidential term, shortly before heading off to what would become an infamous 2018 summit ...

Many foreign policy experts warn that if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it would be broadly destabilizing for the Middle East and nearby regions. A first-order concern is that Iran’s ...