C ould nuclear bombs be harnessed to help people? As the Cold War raged on in the 1950s, scientists building nuclear weapons began to ponder whether they could be put toward posit ...

Alex Wellerstein joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about nuclear science. Which nations have nuclear bombs? Who decides who gets to have nuclear warheads and who doesn't? Why were ...

LOS ALAMOS — A sphere of plutonium the size of a grapefruit contains enough energy to erase an entire city from existence. That single fact explains why nuclear weapons remain humanity’s most feared ...

A minute of silence was observed Saturday in Nagasaki, precisely at the time of the atomic bomb explosion dropped by a US bomber on the Japanese city 80 years ago, while the restored bell tower of the ...

Each day of war risks a strike on sites that could scatter radioactive material. Officials say one laboratory near the front has been hit dozens of times. Each day of war risks a strike on sites that ...

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, ...