The Islamic Republic has been discovered to be developing its nuclear program at two sites as experts warn it is 'racing against time' to create the atomic bomb ...

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

Some media reports and popular accounts on social media have claimed that Israel detonated a low-yield tactical nuclear ...

There are eight countries around the world that are known to have nuclear weapons, and there are fears that Iran could join ...

A group of journalists were allowed to tour a weapons laboratory deep underground in Frenchman Flat, Nevada. NPR's science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel was among them.

The results suggest that the radioactive dust originated in Algeria's Reggane region, but its plutonium levels didn't match ...

The RPS uses two Stirling engines to convert the heat generated by the decay of Plutonium-238 (Pu-238) into electricity.

A thousand feet beneath the desert, the United States conducts experiments to verify that its weapons work. But some fear a ...

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

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The storm is expected undergo explosive cyclogenesis – a term more commonly known as a 'weather bomb' – in the Atlantic on Thursday. Dramatic weather maps show a cyclonic formation passing ...

A 'weather bomb' bringing snow ... According to weather maps from WX Charts, the weather will move towards the UK in the evening on Thursday, January 23. By 6am on Friday, January 24, rain ...