Truman ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to work on all forms of nuclear weapons. That included hydrogen bombs. And a man ...

OpenAI has been cozying up to the government for a few years now, and it’s been turbocharged under the Trump Presidency.

The B61 bomb’s reported yield will be adjustable to between 0.3 and 50 kilotons. A kiloton is the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT. Although not possessing the long-distance standoff capacity of either ...

The Islamic Republic is closer to a bomb than ever before, as our interview with the world’s nuclear watchdog explains. Since President Donald Trump in 2018 pulled America out of a multilateral ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.

The U.S. hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in decades, and since the 1990s has used simulations and experiments to verify they're working properly. NPR was granted a rare look at how they do it.

New York City has been simulated as the location of a nuclear bomb explosion, with a map showing the catastrophic damage that ...