Russia possesses roughly 6,000 nuclear weapons, and Putin and other prominent Russian figures repeatedly invoked nuclear ...

Ellsberg is best known for releasing the Pentagon Papers. But, before becoming a whistleblower, he worked as a nuclear war ...

Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons, yet it has maintained one of the most unusual policies in nuclear ...

NHK has learned that a documentary film showing Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the immediate aftermath of the August 1945 atomic ...

Assad-era Syrian reactor was configured for nuclear weapons, IAEA chief says - The Assad-era government in Syria was constructing a nuclear reactor that was configured to produce fissile material for ...

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the course of World War II and the history of Japan changed when the US military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Now, on the 81 st anniversary of the bombing, an ...

Switzerland is home to over 370,000 nuclear bomb shelters. The historically neutral nation guarantees each of its 9 million ...

What happens to Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile, including the 970 pounds that it has highly concentrated to near-weapons grade, is one of the primary sticking points as the US and Iran have trudged ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene of destruction after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945.Universal History Archive/Universal Images ...