Humans’ learning about nuclear concepts that led to nuclear energy and nuclear bombs was one of the most important turning points in human history. This represented the first time that humanity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons — as President Donald Trump called for last week — would be unnecessary, costly, ...

A recent study in Nature Communications suggests that Americans living closer to nuclear power plants face higher cancer death rates. As interest in nuclear energy grows again, results like these can ...

Recent claims by President Donald Trump that Pakistan is covertly conducting nuclear weapons tests have reignited a debate over seismic activity in the volatile region of Balochistan, the site of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Lemeyo Abon learned about snow from the movies played on projectors by visiting American sailors. But ...

For decades, astronomers have been aware of something weird lurking on old, 1950s-era photographic plates: starlike flashes of light (called “transients”) that appear from nowhere and vanish just as ...

A Pakistani official told CBS News that the country "will not be the first to resume nuclear tests" in response to President Trump's assertion in an interview with 60 Minutes that the country has ...

AI is ready to duke it out with nukes. Real life AI systems are turning out to be as bloodthirsty as the machine from movie “WarGames” — as they have proved more willing to use nuclear bombs during ...

In July 1946, the United States conducted a test of atomic weapons code named Operation CROSSROADS. From then until the test ban treaty in 1963, the Department of Defense and earlier agencies ...