Ms. Fihn is the director of Lex International Fund and a former executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. It’s easy to feel ...

The Chinese government has claimed that it has been "forced" to develop nuclear weapons as a United States official issued a warning about China's weapons of mass destruction program. Newsweek has ...

On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students ranged in age ...

Tensions are escalating between nuclear-armed states. But nuclear weapons are not an inevitable fact of human life. They are not impossible to get rid of, and pushing for that can be done by ...

With its 2.746 exaFLOPS peak performance, “El Capitan” outpaces every other supercomputer on the planet, including the former titleholder, Frontier, at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For perspective, ...

Brandon Williams served aboard a nuclear submarine and represented a New York congressional district for one term, but has said little about his experience in the management of atomic weapons.

Chinese researchers have allegedly developed a new high-power microwave (HPM) weapon with power equivalent to electromagnetic energy released by a nuclear explosion. Reportedly also relatively compact ...

As the global state of affairs becomes more daunting and the risk of countries using nuclear weapons grows, it is time for Japan, the only nation to have been attacked by nuclear weapons in war ...

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

With thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, Trump could take five actions to reduce the potential for Armaggedon. Will President-elect Donald Trump increase or decrease the risk of ...

weapon – which is still in laboratory testing and not ready for immediate deployment in the field – is capable of generating electromagnetic pulses with an intensity comparable to a nuclear ...

The B61 has already been in service for more than five decades, yet remains both "the oldest and most versatile weapon in the enduring U.S. nuclear weapon stockpile." by Peter Suciu Follow ...