Liz Muller convinced her dad Richard to forego retirement and become an entrepreneur. The result is a revolutionary approach ...

There’s a strange irony in the history of the atomic bomb: the most famous scientist on Earth, the man whose equation unlocked the very possibility of nuclear energy, wanted absolutely nothing to do ...

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For nearly eighty years, the world has lived under the shadow of a single terrifying idea: the nuclear bomb.It was the weapon ...

America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a ...

Though the country’s nuclear arsenal has undergone no explosive testing for decades, federal experts say it can reliably obliterate targets halfway around the globe. By William J. Broad President ...

Hydronuclear experiments, barred globally since the 1990s, may lie behind President Trump’s call last month for the United States to resume its testing of nuclear bombs. By William J. Broad President ...

Editor’s note: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists presents here, from its September 1946 issue, an eyewitness account of the first atomic bomb test in the Marshall Islands. In it, the author not ...