When Iran’s covert nuclear program came to international attention over two decades ago, Tehran insisted that its intentions were peaceful and that it had no plans to develop nuclear weapons.
Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the ...
The US has a total of six unaccounted-for nuclear warheads from 32 documented Broken Arrow accidents - and the detonation of ...
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 ...
Beyond roughly 4 to 5 kilometres, the immediate blast effects weaken significantly. Windows may shatter and some buildings ...
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 ...