After a mid-air collision off Tybee Island in 1958, the military spent decades dredging the coast for a 7,600-pound nuke. It ...

North Korea warned this week that it might test a hydrogen bomb in the Pacific Ocean, after saying the country had already ...

The US has a total of six unaccounted-for nuclear warheads from 32 documented Broken Arrow accidents - and the detonation of ...

The US has a total of six missing nuclear warheads out of 32 known accidents - with one diver finding a bomb powerful enough ...

When a nuclear bomb detonates you have just moments to do the right thing, if you haven't been vaporized immediately ...

Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...

Ty Bannerman will read from and sign copies of “Nuclear Family: a memoir of the atomic west” at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, as part of the Bad Mouth Reading Series at the q-Staff Theatre, 400 Broadway ...

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the ...

Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series. The second installment will appear in Monday’s newspaper. Near the end of a washboard gravel road climbing uphill about five miles off ...

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 ...