Here’s how a nuclear bomb actually works. The B61 and the B83 nuclear bombs currently in the United States’ arsenal are thermonuclear, or hydrogen bombs, and quite different than the fission weapons ...

With tensions escalating between Israel and Iran, the focus has shifted to one of the most heavily guarded sites in the Islamic Republic: the Fordow nuclear facility, buried deep within a mountain.

Fordow, a key nuclear enrichment site in Iran, was found to have 60% enriched uranium last month, according to the Washington Post. Once uranium reaches 90% enrichment, it can be used to fuel a ...

A pivotal scene in the explosive hit biopic and Best Picture winner, "Oppenheimer," involves America's top scientists discussing whether or not to develop an even more potent nuclear weapon — the ...

Here's how the world's largest non-nuclear bomb, the guided Massive Ordnance Penetrator, could go deep underground and shake up Iran's Fordow nuclear fuel-enrichment facility.

While Israel is wielding a wide array of weapons during their ongoing attacks on Iran, there is at least one which only the United States can bring to the battlespace: a bunker-busting bomb known as ...

Eighty years ago, a weapon was used which would transform modern warfare and the entire world forever. Hiroshima, in Japan, was the target of the first ever nuclear weapon, dropped by the US Air Force ...

Richard L. Garwin, an architect of America’s hydrogen bomb, who shaped defense policies for postwar governments and laid the groundwork for insights into the structure of the universe as well as for ...