During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel prepares to meet with President Trump, the question of whether to strike ...

China is building a large-scale laser-ignited nuclear fusion research facility in Mianyang to enhance both nuclear weapons design and clean energy production. The facility's design mirrors the ...

a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation. Satellite photos show four outlying "arms" that will house laser bays, and a central experiment bay that ...

MOSCOW, February 23. /TASS/. The share of modern weapons in the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation has reached 95%, in the naval component of the nuclear triad it is almost 100% ...

and facilitating the design of future bomb designs without testing” the weapons themselves, said William Alberque, a nuclear policy analyst at the Henry L. Stimson Centre. China’s foreign ...

Russia's potential deployment of space-based nuclear weapons would threaten 'our entire modern way of life' in America and Europe, top US generals have warned. 'It's a completely indiscriminate ...

All-out nuclear war may be the greatest risk we face with modern weaponry, but it’s not the only one. Radioactive contamination. Seizure, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon. Accidental or ...

Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively ...