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

SALEM TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A startling sight in Salem Township Tuesday night as a fire flash was spotted at the nuclear power plant. 28/22 News Reporter Joe Mason has a closer look ...

The Castle Bravo nuclear test produced an explosive yield of 15 megatons and was 1,000 times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

The 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is this week. It was the only time nuclear warheads were used during war. Here’s a look at the history and current U.S. stockpile.

VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say ...

JIM CARRIER Special to The Gazette Aug 5, 2025 Aug 5, 2025 Updated Aug 5, 2025 NAGASAKI, Japan • Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, as the Enola Gay winged its way back to the Pacific Island of Tinian ...

Work is ongoing to find the cause of a gas explosion that rocked an outbuilding of the Quad Cities nuclear power plant early on 27 October. Owner Exelon said in an emailed statement that the plant's ...

Atomic bomb survivors' groups and others have denounced a remark by a security official at the prime minister's office, who ...

Cameron’s upcoming film, Ghosts of Hiroshima, will focus on the aftermath of the atomic bombs in Japan - Universal History Archive/Getty “This might be the most challenging film I ever make.” So says ...

Kenneth Waltz is probably right that a nuclear-armed Iran could be deterred from deliberately using nuclear weapons or transferring a nuclear device to terrorists ("Why Iran Should Get the Bomb," July ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Those are the ...